I'm from the '60s, but no one has ever accused me of being a hippie. I never had much interest in the Woodstock crowd, which partied to change the world, while real people were starving to death in Africa.

If you're an independent, you don't get on TV. And in the rare instances that you do get on, you get a fraction of what that very same movie would get if it came in through Fox or Viacom.

I majored in Chinese Studies. I'm probably the only director of chicken Indian zombie movies who can speak pretty good Mandarin.

I would only make a movie that I believe in. If I didn't believe in it, it would be unworthy.

The first time I took acid, I made the decision that I would stay in New York and find an independent film company to get a job with.

I like fat people more then I like thin people, things are always a lot more funnier when they happen to fat people.

The nice thing about piracy is, it allows the public to get independent art, to get a variety of music and movies.