True success is figuring out your life and career so you never have to be around jerks.
Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it’s the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.
Without obsession, life is nothing.
Contemporary art hates you.
I’ve had a pretty amazing life, a good life, and God knows I’m thankful, but I do believe that after 30, stop whining! Everybody’s dealt a hand, and it’s not fair what you get. But you’ve got to deal with it.
People vomitied at my movies; not because of the movie but because they were drunk. I took credit anyway.
I like rap music. But bragging about being rich to poor people is really offensive. I want to hear a rap song about buying a Cy Twombly painting or dating a museum curator. I want to hear about that kind of rich.
Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves?
I never had any desire to get a tattoo. If I was ever going to get one, I would get a plain anchor with a rope around it, the most unimaginative possible tattoo, like Popeye had.
I always say you need something weird on your face and some good shoes and nobody looks in the middle.
When they throw the water on the witch, she says, “Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness”. That line inspired my life. I sometimes say it to myself before I go to sleep, like a prayer.
You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.
Life is nothing if you’re not obsessed.
Stop blaming your parents. If you’re really angry at 60 years old, you’re an idiot! You’ve got to work some of it out.
Wouldn’t you rather your kid be a drug dealer than a drug addict?
Pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.
How could you think of such awful things? liberal critics always ask. How else could I possibly amuse myself? I always wonder.
Some call me director, producer, filmmaker. I prefer to call myself pube-king.
To me, beauty is looks you can never forget. A face should jolt, not soothe.
No comedy should be longer than 90 minutes. There’s no such thing as a good long joke.