Wouldn't you rather your kid be a drug dealer than a drug addict?

I go to colleges all the time in America, and everyone's gay, and I think how can this be? And it's only in rich schools. In poor schools, nobody's gay.

Yeah, I know I should be fighting for gay rights, but who wants to join the army or get married anyway?

At the premiere of Hairspray on Broadway, Harvey Fierstein's mom said to my mom, "Didn't we raise great sons?" and my mother just started sobbing, because I'm sure they'd both been through other nights when people didn't say that.

I would never do hard-core pornography, because it looks too much like open-heart surgery.

When I started making movies about weird people, I knew they were weird, I was infected with irony, and I wanted New York to notice.

I'm here today because of LSD. LSD gave me the confidence to be who I am today. Completely.