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

I make independent movies. I don't know how to do anything else. I don't know any other job that I could really get.

I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.

"How could you think of such awful things?" liberal critics always ask. "How else could I possibly amuse myself?" I always wonder.

And I seek people who break rules with happiness — and not bringing pain to themselves.

The only way I've learned to change anyone's mind politically is to make them laugh. My whole career has been about that.

I haven't changed - the public has. I'm an insider now, which is hilarious.