I believe that independent film making is the last frontier of creative expression available. So I'm always willing to lend a helping hand to a young film maker who's just getting into the business.

Being a gay married man, I love Broadway musicals.

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

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.

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