Get on the fashion nerves of your peers, not your parents – that is the key to fashion leadership.
I want to be harder to reach, not easier.
I understand why people want to look up their friends – usually they want to see what people they’ve wanted to have sex with look like.
Anyone from my past I’m interested in, I’ve already stalked their homes. I like to go outside.
I hitchhiked at high school. My parents thought was a perfectly normal thing to do even though God knows I got blown a lot of times riding home from school.
Terrible things always seemed to happen to hitchhikers in movies – including my own. It has always been glamorous and dangerous and scary and sexy.
Life is a rotten lottery.
The only way I’ve learned to change anyone’s mind politically is to make them laugh. My whole career has been about that.
New York was the last place that my movies caught on. I didn’t make underground movies in New York, and in the 1960s, they were very snobby about that, because the whole scene was here.
I haven’t changed – the public has. I’m an insider now, which is hilarious.
The only time I had a normal boyfriend was during the time of AIDS, so maybe that saved me. It’s certainly not karma.
I’m here today because of LSD. LSD gave me the confidence to be who I am today. Completely.
I tried heroin. I shot up in high school, but I just thought it was so dreary: puking and nodding.
Coke didn’t last long enough; it gave me a hangover for two weeks for being high for ten minutes.
I’ll have pot in my home for guests – I’m polite! – but I don’t sit around and smoke by myself, ever. Not like I did when I was young.
Pot came first when I was young. But I did the work. It wasn’t a battle of what came first. They went together like “love and marriage, horse and carriage!”
Hairspray is the only movie I made that’s subversive, because they’re doing it in every high school in America. A man’s playing a woman, and two men sing a love song to each other.
I think it’s all independent films. There aren’t any! If they were looking for me when I was making Polyester, then it’d be perfect, but they’re not. I’m not looking for that. TV is much bigger and better now; far more people see it.
I was always flattered, but I just want my movies to make money. I want to be commercial. I’m never the person who says, “I don’t care if people don’t see my movies.” I always want people to see my movies.
People still come to Baltimore and say, “I didn’t realize you made documentaries.”