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.

The dean of the American Film Institute has written that I'm one of the very few auteurs in America. I've had freedom for 40 years to create art that is totally personal and is what I believe in.

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.

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.

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

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.

The person who goes to the Troma movie knows that he or she may love the Troma movie or, he or she may hate the Troma movie; but the movie goer knows that he or she will never forget the Troma movie.