I didn't even know what a film director was. To me, Charlie Chaplin was a goofy clown, and John Ford - what? Never heard of him.

There is no way I could have ever dared to make a documentary, much less have the money to make a documentary, if it was on 16mm. But, with the magic of digital.

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

Luckily, I've never been offered a directing job that was lucrative. I've never heard, "Here's $800,000 to remake Sisters."

Mickey Mouse should be in the public domain by now. What a better world it would be if other people were doing things with Mickey Mouse!

In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die!

My favorite film is always the one that I most recently worked on.