Censorship has been my best press agent my whole life.

Many hundred-million-dollar Hollywood comedies aren't any good. They're trying to shock you.

It took me a while to figure it out, but to have a real hit on Broadway, you have to get the respected Broadway people to like it. But then the production also has to appeal to the most middle-class people who know nothing about Broadway and who come to see it later.

I understand why people want to look up their friends - usually they want to see what people they've wanted to have sex with look like.

I want to be harder to reach, not easier.

You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.

I don't know how I made those movies. I went out every single night, I smoked pot every single day. I drank. We did everything, but I never became a drug addict or an alcoholic. Other friends are dead, many of them. So many people in this retrospective...in Female Trouble, almost everyone is dead.