I learned that people like my work because I praise things that others don't like.

My photographs are not really about photography. They are about editing. I use photography but they are all taken from the TV screen. Anybody can do that, but it's the order I put the pictures in to try to create a new kind of movie, something that you can put on your wall.

Stop blaming your parents. If you're really angry at 60 years old, you're an idiot! You've got to work some of it out.

I must admit, even my fans everywhere I go in the world - just this week I was in London and Glasgow and the week before I was in Des Moines - my fans all look the same in all those cities - they look great!

At the premiere of Hairspray on Broadway, Harvey Fierstein's mom said to my mom, "Didn't we raise great sons?" and my mother just started sobbing, because I'm sure they'd both been through other nights when people didn't say that.

I think [parents] became very proud, even though they were mortified by the early films because no one liked them.

Nothing is more impotent than an unread library.