I was going to be a teacher and improve the world. Teach people with hooks for hands to fingerpaint, and teach bums to draw happy faces on beads.

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.

Some people get lifetimes, some get moments. I’ve got to tell myself it’s what you do with what you get that counts.

Not so the scientist. The very essence of his life is the service of truth.

I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.

I need you for a lot of things, Hardy. A lifetime's worth of things.

My horizons are also broadened by working with so many people around Europe. They taught me what I never would have learned just staying in my own country.

Stop rolling down hill like a snow ball headed for hell.

An empty throne always tempts me.

We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart.

It wasn't that no one asked me to the prom, it was that no one would tell me where it was.

Young women growing into situations with no parents are usually material for exploitation in the brothels.