I'd love to sell out completely. It's just that nobody has been willing to buy.

Fame is protection if you go to a scary place. Fame is fun. A lot of people don't say anything and you don't know they know who you are.

I tried heroin. I shot up in high school, but I just thought it was so dreary: puking and nodding.

Anytime you make someone laugh or satirize something, it's the best way to change someone's opinion because they're defenseless - they laugh, they listen.

The "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" hitchhiker really made people never want to hitchhike again - the hitcher, the show. Hitchhiking is always vaguely sexual.

I haven't committed all the crimes in my movies, I would have gotten the death penalty many years ago if I had.

If you're not sure you could love your children, please don't have them, because they might grow up and kill us.