I have no interest in ever making a movie I didn't write. If they were going to take my house away, then I guess I might have to. But my agent knows not to even bother sending me the scripts.

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

Don’t sleep with people who don’t read.

My idea of an interesting person is someone who is quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and turns their disadvantage into a career.

True success is figuring out your life and career so you never have to be around jerks.

Without obsession, life is nothing.

[My catholic education] sticked with me. It caused the rage I had to make 'Pink Flamingos.'

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.

Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves?

I like hard movies; I like ones that are basically the opposite of a date movie.

The "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" hitchhiker really made people never want to hitchhike again - the hitcher, the show. Hitchhiking is always vaguely sexual.

It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.

Change is a digital continuum.

Cheers to a gracious New Year. May we uphold the fullness of God’s grace, goodness and goodwill.

As a vampire, you must accept that every person you ever know will die, and you are the only constant in your life, the only person you can—and should—rely on.

Sorry if this little war’s inconvenienced you in any way, ” Indris drawled. “I’ll try to schedule the next one with you in mind

I believe every single person on this planet is a dreamer but you have to make a vigorous effort to make it in life.

A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.

The gift of achievement is not the things you get, but the person you become.

One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.

I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.