The Loved One has been the most underrated film I've worked on.

When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.

In the case of The Loved One, I was hired to collaborate on an updated version of the book.

An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship, aimless violence, materialistic obsession, intolerance, and every form of hypocrisy.

I learned not to care ... and to write for an imaginary reader whose tastes were similar to my own.

You can't do the end of the world in a conventionally dramatic way or Boy Meets Girl way.

Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries.