I think that's why I've lasted this long because I love everything I make fun of! I make fun of myself first! I mean, I started my career by calling my films "trash" - the local critics used to complain that I beat the critic to the typewriter.

Some call me director, producer, filmmaker. I prefer to call myself pube-king.

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 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 hitchhiked at high school. My parents thought was a perfectly normal thing to do even though God knows I got blown a lot of times riding home from school.

The Easter Bunny is a major reason for heroin addiction in America.

I love to read about anger. A "feel bad" book always makes me feel good. And no other novel in the history of literature is more depressing than Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children.