Always, European art cinema has been the most threatening and the grimmest and the most transgressive, I think.
Everyone's sex life is funny except your own. Every person's is, and yours never is.
I was in the 'Alvin and the Chipmunk' movie, which was a real bucket list item.
I was creating characters early. People didn't beat me up. I scared them. I hated authority. I could also get people to do things; I was quite the early director. I could make people laugh enough to get their defences down - and then brainwash them.
Isn't that the most perverse thing you've ever heard?
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.
I believe that both Obama and Trump would describe themselves as outsiders.
I can make a movie for $5M, which used to be a routinely low, independent movie, but there's no such thing as that any more.
They all want you to make a movie for under a million dollars, which I don't want to. I don't want to be a faux radical film-maker at 70. I did that. I don't need to do it again.
My father was horrified by my movies, yet he lent me the money to make the early ones. And I paid him back with interest.
I like art. It's another way to rebel.
If I made a film today, it would certainly be on digital.
Do I like how digital films look? Sometimes, but sometimes it looks flat, and ugly.
I want to be commercial. I'm never the person who says, 'I don't care if people don't see my movies.' I always want people to see my movies.
I like to cook for myself or others, so I cook. I always read at night. Sometimes I go to the movies. I don't go out wildly during the week.
My early films look terrible! I didn't know what I was doing. I learned when I was doing it. I never went to film school.
I don't like reality TV. I don't want to look down on people.
When I was young, there were bars called the 'Hungry Hole,' and in those same neighbourhoods are now gay people pushing baby carriages.
I'd be a bad father. I'm too self-involved.
In any film business, if you're trying to get your next film made, you would never say, 'Oh, my last film was a cult film.' I'd say, 'Oh, great, well I hope this one isn't!' I always say to Johnny Knoxville, 'How do you do it? You sort of do the same thing we did, except you made millions, and I made hundreds.'
