No comedy should be longer than 90 minutes. There's no such thing as a good long joke.

I don't like heroin, unless you're a jazz musician and then you have to be on it because jazz is the sound of heroin.

Well cult is a word you would never say in Hollywood. In any film business, if you're trying to get your next film made, you would never say, "Oh, my last film was a cult film." I'd say, "Oh great, well I hope this one isn't!"

Terrible things always seemed to happen to hitchhikers in movies - including my own. It has always been glamorous and dangerous and scary and sexy.

I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?

If your kid comes out of the bedroom and says he just shut down the government, it seems to me he should at least have an outfit for that.

I was always flattered, but I just want my movies to make money. I want to be commercial. I'm never the person who says, "I don't care if people don't see my movies." I always want people to see my movies.