It's silly that anyone in this world tells you that there are only certain people that can marry you.

I'm always cribbing from real life. I'm not a very creative filmmaker.

I really would love to play a hannibal lector or PSYCO type character.

One of the reasons I always looked up to [George] Carlin is he looked like your grandfather but, acted like your best friend. Most of the adults in my world were adults and acted like adults and had job-type jobs and bills and pressures and stopped playing a long time ago. And George Carlin was a guy that the more he aged the younger he seemed. It was odd because he was still sagely and wise. But he was such a role model for me.

Why do my movies make people feel so dead inside?

So often, over the course of our day-to-days, we forget the details of what shapes us most in life. Sure, we'll pay through the nose to have our weddings videotaped, but can we say the same thing about the first time we discovered masturbation, or the moment we realized that the true nature of the opposite sex is to lie and humiliate (and I'm not just talking about women here)? Usually not.

Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.