We've had the same set designer and the same crew in many cases since 1972.

But some things are the same. My mother still owns the house I grew up in, on what would now be called a cul de sac, but which the sign on the corner called a dead end street.

We've had the same set designer and the same crew in many cases since 1972.

I met John when I was 18 and I was in my first John Waters film when I was 19.

The point is, when you have a chance to have a big adventure, especially if, like in your case, it doesn't hurt anyone, it's just plain foolish not to take it.

John is a cottage industry in Baltimore and the city opens its doors for him whenever he is making a new film.

You don't have to tell anybody a damn thing you don't want to.

Restless, and in desperate need of adventure, I quit my job at an insurance company to travel west with a couple of guys I smoked pot with, scandalizing my family.

It was there that, through a mutual friend, I met John Waters - proving what I've always said: you meet the best people on field trips.

Even then, our family was extraordinary, with ten kids.

The first things I did when I got out of school in '65 was to buy a pair of Levis and pierce my ears.

Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.

It's one thing to say, 'I don't like what you said to me and I find it rude and offensive,' but the moment you threaten violence in return, you've taken it to another level, where you lose whatever credibility you had.

If you've ever done something you love and go do something you like, it's like chewing on sawdust.

If you go out there and start making noise and making sales - people will find you. Sales cure all. You can talk about how great your business plan is and how well you are going to do. You can make up your own opinions, but you cannot make up your own facts. Sales cure all.

How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Looking back, sometimes I think it was predestined.

Generations of heroic Americans have made America more inclusive, more expansive, and more just.

I love room service!

Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.

There's a convention that books are mirrors of the real world, but our fact-obsessed age also wants fiction to be factually based and trustworthy.

I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.

If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.

Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.

The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.

My father was never anti-anything in our house.

Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

It's doesn't just come overnight, you've got to train for it and believe in yourself; that's the most important thing.

I love Shah Rukh Khan! I have seen many of his movies.

I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on.

I love cookery programmes.

Make another list of things done for you that you loved. Do them for others, always.

Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are stupider than that.

Vigorous enforcement of copyrights themselves is an important part of the picture. But I don't think that expanding the legal definition of copyright outside of actual copyright infringement is the right move.

A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the unchallenging zone, but you love it, you can't do it as cinema. Otherwise, you better go do it for television, which is more daring now.