Horror movies, man, the blood entails so much time. And horror movies are not fun; definitely not starting there as a director. Definitely not horror.

Corey feldman and I did sneak into the screening room one day during Lost Boys.

I think maybe ten years from now, I'm hopefully going to be, in like, Tahiti or something. Kicking back like in my huge mansion, if everything goes right, it's all up to me.

You are what you wear. I wear something different everyday.

I don't like Heather Graham. She did an interview and said, 'I didn't want to kiss Corey; I didn't want to catch his mononucleosis. He had a kissing disease.'

I lived in Los Angeles in the '80s, which was not the best place to be.

I'm a chronic relapser. I guess I always will be.

I was numb and I had lots of swollen lymph nodes, my heart was hurting and I had blood clots in my arm and leg.

My opinion is just be very careful when you're young and making the money.

I've gotten to work with some great people. I've been really lucky.

I think I have an addiction to pretty much everything. I mean, I have to be very careful with myself as far as that goes, which is why I have a support group around me consistently.

Living to please people is like chasing many shadows at the same time!

Family's the most important thing.

Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

There's nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.

Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I'm silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good idea, lazy when I'm tired, selfish when I eat one bite more than I should.

Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and unrecognizable?

At the end of the day, audiences just want to laugh and be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that's why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities.

Doing makeup was a way to create characters, only I got tired of doing it for other people.

I get all the truth I need in the newspaper every morning, and every chance I get I go fishing, or swap stories with fishermen to get the taste of it out of my mouth.

Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.