I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion with you.

[Stanley] Kubrick was a great artist and a perfectionist. He always wanted the exact right thing. He did a million takes. Everything had to be perfect. I'm an imperfectionist. I don't really care that much about the work. I write quickly. I'm careless. I shoot carelessly.

I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats. (On the KKK)

I have one last request. Don't use embalming fluid on me; I want to be stuffed with crab meat.

The difference between sex and death is, death you can do alone and nobody laughs at you.

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

The curtain rises on a vast primitive wasteland, not unlike certain parts of New jersey.