"My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s."

"I think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who's to say anybody's even thinking of you that much? But some of these movies that I've done, people still recite lines to me, even 20 years later."

"I don't want to produce anymore small or independent movies because it's just too hard these days."

"It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it."

"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends."

"Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear."

"I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex."

"When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course."