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Life is nothing if you’re not obsessed.

Hipster Quotes

When you’re feeling despondent just put on more country music. There are thousands of slit-your-wrist hillbilly songs that will make you laugh at your self-indulgence and ultimately cheer you up.

I look out through the eyeholes and feel exactly the way Michael Jackson’s son Blanket must have felt.

How come there’s no terrorism with humor, which is a great way to humiliate your enemy? It’s a great time for that.

People still come to Baltimore and say, “I didn’t realize you made documentaries.”

Fifty years seems like a good anniversary. Even after I’m dead, how much better could I get than this? I mean, it’s great, I’m not dead, so I get to see it.

I always say you need something weird on your face and some good shoes and nobody looks in the middle.

I think the extremes are something that’s really interesting to see coalesce in movies.

You should never read just for “enjoyment.” Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends’ insane behavior, or better yet, your own. Pick “hard books.” Ones you have to concentrate on while reading. And for god’s sake, don’t let me ever hear you say, “I can’t read fiction. I only have time for the truth.” Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of “literature”? That means fiction, too, stupid.

I learned that people like my work because I praise things that others don’t like.

I haven’t committed all the crimes in my movies, I would have gotten the death penalty many years ago if I had.

I never thought I had more fun when I was young than kids are having today. I think they have just as much fun. It’s a different way to have fun.

Fun Quotes

I used to joke that I was trying to sell out, and nobody would buy me.

Hitchhiking, intrinsically, is sexual and dangerous. At the same time I never really felt scared. I was scared that nobody would pick me up and that I’d be waiting by the side of the road for a week.

I am on the road all the time. Whether I’m in Paris or in a small college town in Texas, I can’t tell the difference, and that’s good. You don’t have to leave where you were born to be cool anymore.

Anyone from my past I’m interested in, I’ve already stalked their homes. I like to go outside.

Pot came first when I was young. But I did the work. It wasn’t a battle of what came first. They went together like “love and marriage, horse and carriage!”

It isn’t enough to shock. It’s easy to shock. Real surprise is what I’m after.

I was thinking about sort of the similarities between “art movies” and lowbrow movies like kitschy sexploitation films. I think they share certain qualities, whether they’re hyper-stylized or overly emotive or just very visual.

I have to talk about my movies. I have to give interviews to promote what I’m doing. But no one really knows my personal life. And if you don’t have a personal life I feel bad for you.

Everybody should wish they had home movies of themselves, acting out their lunacy on LSD.

All ideology can be embraced if the leader dresses well.

If I could pick my own death, it would be on a roller coaster that jumps the tracks and careens into a packed crowd at a cotton candy stand at a state fair.

Get on the fashion nerves of your peers, not your parents – that is the key to fashion leadership.

I never thought I’d be 52 years old. I don’t think that anybody at 16 thinks like that.

I couch-surfed for years. But I always wanted to live in Baltimore; I still do. If I had to choose, it would always be Baltimore.

I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don’t, but I still always have a way of telling a story.

Stories Quotes

I’m an old person because I still buy DVDs. I have every one of my albums and 45s – I even have a couple of 33s and I do have a turntable. But I must admit, I don’t listen to vinyl today. But I listen to all types of music.

Watching a movie should be like hunting. Out of context, every image of the cinema is yours for a split second. Take them before they bury it.

I’m perpetual tourist, and that’s the best way to travel. Nobody gets used to you, you make new friends without having to hear anyone’s everyday problems, and you jet back still feeling like a know-it-all.

I must admit, even my fans everywhere I go in the world – just this week I was in London and Glasgow and the week before I was in Des Moines – my fans all look the same in all those cities – they look great!

It’s always up to other people to say if something is art. I hate it when people say, “I’m an artist.” I think, well, I’ll be the judge of that. And I don’t think “artist” is a job description. It’s a critique, a favorable critique, that someone else might apply to your work.

I make independent movies. I don’t know how to do anything else. I don’t know any other job that I could really get.

There was a cultural war going on, the ’60s was going on. All the film critics were square.

Terrible things always seemed to happen to hitchhikers in movies – including my own. It has always been glamorous and dangerous and scary and sexy.

Going to a sensational murder trial is the only way I can relax.

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.

Shutting down governments on your computer is just as much as fun as going to a riot at Yale.

Fun Quotes

I’ll have pot in my home for guests – I’m polite! – but I don’t sit around and smoke by myself, ever. Not like I did when I was young.

First of all, accept that something is wrong with you. It’s a good start. Something has always been wrong with me, too. We’re in a club of sorts, the lunatic fringe who are proud to band together. There’s a joyous road to ruin out there, and if you let me be your garbage guru, I’ll teach you how to succeed in insanity and take control of your low self-esteem. Personality disorders are a terrible thing to waste.

I think I technically learned some things, hopefully. But I go to the movies for characters and story and a berserk vision.

Hairspray is the only really devious movie I ever made. The musical based on it is now being performed in practically every high school in America – and nobody seems to notice it’s a show with two men singing a love song to each other that also encourages white teen girls to date black guys. Pink Flamingos was preaching to the converted. But Hairspray is a Trojan horse: it snuck into Middle America and never got caught. You can do the same thing.

At the premiere of Hairspray on Broadway, Harvey Fierstein’s mom said to my mom, “Didn’t we raise great sons?” and my mother just started sobbing, because I’m sure they’d both been through other nights when people didn’t say that.

When I was young, no one wanted to be one; now even the President of the United States would call himself an outsider. So now I’m for insiders.

I’ve had a pretty amazing life, a good life, and God knows I’m thankful, but I do believe that after 30, stop whining! Everybody’s dealt a hand, and it’s not fair what you get. But you’ve got to deal with it.

Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends’ insane behavior, or better yet, your own.

God knows if you could start a new sex act that’s more important than making a good movie.

I tried heroin. I shot up in high school, but I just thought it was so dreary: puking and nodding.

I think that young people understand me perfectly. I think that’s the luckiest thing about my career, that I get older and they get younger, and it didn’t stop with my generation.

People vomitied at my movies; not because of the movie but because they were drunk. I took credit anyway.

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