I enjoy the making of the film and it's something for me to do. If nobody ever comes to my films, if people don't want to give me money to make films, that will stop me. But as long as people come all over the world and I have an audience and I have ideas for films, I will do them for as long as I enjoy the process. And I like the whole process of making a film.

Show business is dog eat dog. It's worse than dog eat dog. It's dog doesn't return dog's phone calls.

Some people think about sex all the time; some people think of sex some of the time; and some people never think about sex: they become lawyers.

My films are therapy for my debilitating depression. In institutions people weave baskets. I make films.

I don't believe in an afterlife, but I'm taking an extra pair of underwear just in case.

Raised by two mothers...wow, most of us barely survive one

Human existence is a brutal experience to me... it's a brutal, meaningless experience - an agonizing, meaningless experience with some oases, delight, some charm and peace, but these are just small oases. Overall, it is a brutal, terrible experience, and so it salvation is what can you do to alleviate the agony of the human condition, the human predicament? That is what interests me the most.