Even illegal weapons have lost their panache. Zip guns and shanks were at least homemade. Where is the craft in a grade-schooler firing a magnum? What is the world coming to? It’s not even bad to be a communist anymore!
If you ever go home with somebody and they don’t have books in their house, don’t sleep with them. I think that’s very important.
Censorship has been my best press agent my whole life.
Humor is how you change people’s opinions, and if you can make someone laugh, they’ll listen, even if they hate you.
My favorite characters are people who think they’re normal but they’re not. I live in Baltimore, and it’s full of people like that. I’ve also lived in New York, which is full of people who think they’re crazy, but they’re completely normal.
I would describe myself as a writer that hopes to take you into my world and help you feel a little safer.
If you’re not sure you could love your children, please don’t have them, because they might grow up and kill us.
Just make sure your children hate authority and they’ll do fine.
I would never do hard-core pornography, because it looks too much like open-heart surgery.
I’m perpetual tourist, and that’s the best way to travel. Nobody gets used to you, you make new friends without having to hear anyone’s everyday problems, and you jet back still feeling like a know-it-all.
I never rewatch the great films of my favorite directors because I’m afraid they won’t hold up.
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.