Comedy is not commercial; it is risky, because what is funny in one place isn't always funny somewhere else.

In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die!

I like fat people more then I like thin people, things are always a lot more funnier when they happen to fat people.

Fast Food Nation was boring and aimed at yuppies, and yuppies don't eat fast food.

I majored in Chinese Studies. I'm probably the only director of chicken Indian zombie movies who can speak pretty good Mandarin.

The dean of the American Film Institute has written that I'm one of the very few auteurs in America. I've had freedom for 40 years to create art that is totally personal and is what I believe in.

There is no way I could have ever dared to make a documentary, much less have the money to make a documentary, if it was on 16mm. But, with the magic of digital.

I would only make a movie that I believe in. If I didn't believe in it, it would be unworthy.

The person who goes to the Troma movie knows that he or she may love the Troma movie or, he or she may hate the Troma movie; but the movie goer knows that he or she will never forget the Troma movie.

Movies are art and the spirit of the movie depends on the creators.

If someone offered me a hundred million dollars to make a movie? I would first remind him that there are 850 million people in the world who don't have enough to eat.

I’m beginning to wish I’d had you deported after the first murder! Death seems to follow you around like the plague.

The way Magnus’ breath had sounded, rattling in his chest, before he’d said his father’s name.

sometimes I hate you," she said.

If women feel they are able to go from partner to partner without feeling emotionally invested and ultimately hurt, they should go for it.

Talking is something you can't do judiciously unless you keep in practice.

The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision. Tears and not sight are the essence of the eye.

I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose.

That works fine for me . . . Sienna Lauren Snow.

Horror is so basic. You'd get an adrenaline jolt from watching your mom get gored by a woolly mammoth. A horror movie gives you the adrenaline without having to have your mom get gored.

Some things it don't pay to be curious about.