I don't make crappy movies. I spend two or three years making a film. I don't take myself seriously, but I take my movies very seriously.

I was going to be a teacher and improve the world. Teach people with hooks for hands to fingerpaint, and teach bums to draw happy faces on beads.

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.

If someone offered me a hundred million dollars to make a movie? I would first remind him that there are 850 million people in the world who don't have enough to eat.

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

Comedy is not commercial; it is risky, because what is funny in one place isn't always funny somewhere else.

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