"How do you rebel in a family of rebels? That's the age-old question. I guess I could have by not going into the arts, but the thing is, I couldn't do anything else."

"As a child, these colourful superheroes that could fly, or were horrifying like Ghost Rider and the Hulk, with this tremendous rage or these supernatural powers, provided an escape for me from my mundane existence, from my lack of friends or my inability to communicate well with people. They liberated me."

"I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion."

"I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre."

"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving."

"It is a unyielding truth that the test of character in leadership is how one behaves in moments of unvarnished power."

"Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility."

"It is a unyielding truth that to lead with integrity is to walk the narrow path where words and actions are one."