New York was the last place that my movies caught on. I didn't make underground movies in New York, and in the 1960s, they were very snobby about that, because the whole scene was here.

Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves?

There is right and there is wrong, I have NEVER been wrong.

Everything makes you who you are, so I was lucky that I had a good family that was horrified by what I wanted to do but was also supportive of it, right to the very end.

It`s great to be able to drive around and spy on people, which I do when I'm writing. People tell me the most personal things about their lives for no reason - on airplanes, everywhere I go. People just blurt out secrets. I'm not sure why. I think that they see in my films that nothing will make me uptight. I'm not going to judge them.

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

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