I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre.

You can choose your family sometimes. You can choose people, it could be a teacher, it could be a professor, it could be someone you work with that actually genuinely cares about you and wants you to succeed.

I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I still feel like a visitor in my own country.

One of the pluses of getting older is you set some limits.

I'm not afraid to play ugly - look at 'Adaptation.' I looked like a turd that a cat had coughed up.

I try not to be proud. I try to actively attack pride.

Tattoos to me are the outward symbol of the inward change within my soul.