People cant help how they look.

When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.

I can't please everybody and I don't try to. If I can please myself that's enough. For the rest, I just hope for the best.

I always have to presume that each movie is my last movie because I never know if I'll get money again.

As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn't matter, that there is some part of ourselves that we cannot escape.

Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.

I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.