Have you ever taken a serious political stand on anything? Yeah. Sure. For twenty-four hours once I refused to eat grapes.

The movie is usually, for me, something organic that grows all the time. I sit home and write it, and I'm in an isolated, four-walled environment, and I don't know what's going on. I just write it, and it's appearing in my head in some idealized way where every single moment works, and every little thing is perfect, because it's in my head.

God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.

When you make the film, it's like a chef who works on the meal. After you're working all day in the kitchen and dicing and cutting and putting the sauces on, you don't want to eat it. That's how I always feel about the films. I work on it for a year. I've written it, I've worked with the actors, I've edited, put the music in. I just never want to see it again.

Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' but not in those words.

The prison psychiatrist asked me if I thought sex was dirty. I told him only when it's done right.

At the trial Stubbs chose to act as his own lawyer, but a conflict over his fee led to ill feelings.