Around '62 in Baltimore, all the girls had those big hairdos. And then suddenly, a few of the really hip ones started doing their hair straight. And people panicked. And it was called going 'Joe,' meaning Joe College. And people would say, 'I don't know. Should I be 'Joe'? I can't decide.'
Liberal censors are the worst. I don't remember any trouble with 'Serial Mom' or 'Cecil B. Demented' or any of them. Except 'Cry Baby.'
It's still possible to make movies. Not so much on YouTube. On YouTube, you wind up with an advertising career. What movie became infamous and a hit because of YouTube? Maybe there is one. I don't know.
I read, every day, the 'Wall Street Journal''s editorials because I like to think how my smart enemy thinks.
I never got along in school, really - I already knew what I wanted to do. I have never in my life got a paycheck from anywhere in the world that asked if I went to school.
My dreams have come true. I mean, everything I wanted to happen as a kid has already happened.
I grew up in Baltimore, which is, you know, a city of extremes certainly, but my parents were very conservative. But they made me feel safe, and even though they were mortified at what I was doing, they encouraged it. I think because they thought, what else could I do?
I've always been close to my family. I've got a lot of nieces and nephews, but I'm a good uncle.
To me, the most important thing is the script. I would never make a movie that I didn't write. I wouldn't know how to.
My perfect day in Baltimore begins with getting my five newspapers. Then I would write.
My biggest fear in life is living Nativity scenes. I hide in cars and drive around looking at them. Something about it is really scary to me. What parent would put their child in there with mules and camels and straw?
Fellini was a little lofty for a teenage boy, but certainly he was a huge influence.
I want to be in a 'Final Destination' movie.
I've taught in prison; I've counseled people... I've been arrested; I've been to the psychiatrist.
In the 1960s, if you could save $500, you had enough to move to another city and start a new life.
My dad saw 'A Dirty Shame.' I felt bad about my father knowing what 'felching' was.
In the beginning, my equipment, I would rent them from teamster-types, really. I don't know where they got the cameras - I think from the TV stations. But I don't know if they asked the TV stations.
I used to hitchhike a lot. I'd come home on the train from New York, and there'd be no cabs, but people would pick me right up and take me to my door because they recognised me. It was like a car service. I never really had a bad experience hitchhiking.
I do take a one-week vacation every year, and I go to London in the fall.
Underground, raw movies that come out of nowhere and change everything - they aren't slick-looking. But I have nothing against slick-looking as long as the scripts are funny.
