The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.

I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers.

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.

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

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

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

Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best.