I don't make crappy movies. I spend two or three years making a film. I don't take myself seriously, but I take my movies very seriously.

In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die!

I like fat people more then I like thin people, things are always a lot more funnier when they happen to fat people.

Fast Food Nation was boring and aimed at yuppies, and yuppies don't eat fast food.

I majored in Chinese Studies. I'm probably the only director of chicken Indian zombie movies who can speak pretty good Mandarin.

The dean of the American Film Institute has written that I'm one of the very few auteurs in America. I've had freedom for 40 years to create art that is totally personal and is what I believe in.

There is no way I could have ever dared to make a documentary, much less have the money to make a documentary, if it was on 16mm. But, with the magic of digital.

I would only make a movie that I believe in. If I didn't believe in it, it would be unworthy.

The person who goes to the Troma movie knows that he or she may love the Troma movie or, he or she may hate the Troma movie; but the movie goer knows that he or she will never forget the Troma movie.

Movies are art and the spirit of the movie depends on the creators.

If someone offered me a hundred million dollars to make a movie? I would first remind him that there are 850 million people in the world who don't have enough to eat.

A tightness in my chest came out of nowhere. As I listened to Amanda reassure my brother, I wanted to pull her into my arms and cry. How damn crazy was that? This girl was making me a nutcase.

A régime [Nazism] which invented a biological foreign policy was obviously acting against its own best interests. But at least it obeyed its own particular logic.

If you don't want to be replaced by a computer, don't act like one.

Watch over me, Father, so that everything I do may be with the intention of pleasing Jesus.

Stress is the inability to adapt to a changing environment.

When it comes to fighting you shouldn't be thinking at all. You have to clear your mind and trust yourself completely.

Although I may not be my brother's keeper, I am my brother's brother, and 'because I have been given much, I too must give.'

My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation.

I love hats, shoes, outfits, handbags, and ethnic jewelery.

Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created.