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

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.

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 don't make crappy movies. I spend two or three years making a film. I don't take myself seriously, but I take my movies very seriously.

It's not worth losing your soul to win a guy.

People do not change. It is just that they change the masks they wear and the acts they put on, with new costumes, new dialogues and new settings.That is human nature.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

You have to stay true to your heritage, that's what your brand is about.

We all start not knowing what to do.

Our relationship with God flows out of our love for God.

Personally, I don't teach practices as such. The power of the teaching is sufficient without needing to go for any practice.

I once had a lot of hatred, mainly toward my father, an alcoholic.

As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.