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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Movies are art and the spirit of the movie depends on the creators.