I can’t tell the difference between the best and the worst ’cause I realize not everybody wants to have sex in the middle of a demolition derby race in the car.
How come there’s no terrorism with humor, which is a great way to humiliate your enemy? It’s a great time for that.
William Castle and Alfred Hitchcock were the first director-personalities. Before then, nobody in America knew what a director was.
I learned that people like my work because I praise things that others don’t like.
I care about the presidential elections. I always vote. Sometimes I’ve voted more than once, illegally. But you can’t anymore. The picture ID has ruined everything.
I have no interest in cars. I have a plain, used Buick. I could run over 10 people, and you wouldn’t be able to describe my car.
I’ve bought the same used car from the same man since I was 16 – a Buick every time. They always work, I don’t care what color it is. I don’t want people to recognize my car in case I want to commit a crime.
I always want to see films that are startling and amazing. Not just shocking. Shocking is easy to do. But startling in the way that makes you change how you think about things. Those are the movies I like the best.
The “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” hitchhiker really made people never want to hitchhike again – the hitcher, the show. Hitchhiking is always vaguely sexual.
Fame is protection if you go to a scary place. Fame is fun. A lot of people don’t say anything and you don’t know they know who you are.
Stupid is never that entertaining. You can be stupid and sexy, stupid and funny but he’s just plain stupid. That is not remarkable, that’s what I mean.
I’m a film director. Gay is an adjective that I certainly am, but I don’t know that it’s my first one. I think if you’re just a gay filmmaker, you get pigeonholed just like if you say I’m a black filmmaker, I’m a Spanish filmmaker, I’m a whatever.
Valentine’s Day is my mother’s birthday. If I’m wildly in love, I’ve sent people chicken hearts, which seems to appeal to the kind of person that I’ve been in love with.
I have no interest in ever making a movie I didn’t write. If they were going to take my house away, then I guess I might have to. But my agent knows not to even bother sending me the scripts.
I make independent movies. I don’t know how to do anything else. I don’t know any other job that I could really get.
People are going to say, “I was a lesbian back in the 90s” just like people say, “I was a hippie in the 60s”. I see them struggling. Rich girls struggling with their heterosexuality.
I think that nobody gets mad at me anymore, no matter what I say, because I don’t think I’m mean. I am interested in what’s next.
Shutting down governments on your computer is just as much as fun as going to a riot at Yale.
I never thought I had more fun when I was young than kids are having today. I think they have just as much fun. It’s a different way to have fun.
I think that young people understand me perfectly. I think that’s the luckiest thing about my career, that I get older and they get younger, and it didn’t stop with my generation.