I live in San Francisco, I live in Provincetown. They're all the same, apart from Baltimore. Baltimore's the only cheap place left.

Get on the fashion nerves of your peers, not your parents - that is the key to fashion leadership.

As far as socially redeeming value, I hope I don't have any.

I've bought the same used car from the same man since I was 16 - a Buick every time. They always work, I don't care what color it is. I don't want people to recognize my car in case I want to commit a crime.

The good guys in my movies mind their own business and they don't judge other people. And the bad guys are jealous, they judge other people without knowing the whole story, they want all the attention and they're mean spirited. So I think my films are politically correct in a weird way.

Censorship has been my best press agent my whole life.

William Castle and Alfred Hitchcock were the first director-personalities. Before then, nobody in America knew what a director was.