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.
Hitchhiking, intrinsically, is sexual and dangerous. At the same time I never really felt scared. I was scared that nobody would pick me up and that I’d be waiting by the side of the road for a week.
Technique is nothing more than failed style.
I’m thrilled to have a completely new audience that I can get from Court TV, without it being my own trial. That was the only other way I would have gotten it.
The anger I have about high school – which I do have because they discouraged every interest I ever had; actually I call it anti-education – that anger led to my career.
To understand bad taste one must have very good taste.
To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone vomits while watching one of my films, it’s like getting a standing ovation. But one must remember that there is such a thing as good bad taste and bad bad taste.
Wealth is walking into any bookshop and buying any book you want without looking at the price tag.
Everything makes you who you are, so I was lucky that I had a good family that was horrified by what I wanted to do but was also supportive of it, right to the very end.
I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?