"I know you're supposed to tell kids not to do drugs, but, kids, do it! Do weed! Don't do the other stuff, but weed is good"
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"I know what it feels like to carry a lot of weight in a society that's very image-conscious. It's a thin person's world, and we try to navigate within it without being made fun of."
"Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent."
"Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading."
"I wanted to get my movie noticed WITHOUT spending any ad money. So I made a bit of a spectacle. I recorded lots of podcasts. I bickered with hate groups. I criticized critics. I banged pots together. I did everything I could to raise awareness without raising any money to do so."
"Failure is success training."
"If there was no Internet, my career would have ended in 1995."
"I'm always cribbing from real life. I'm not a very creative filmmaker."
"We love dirty oral on the Down Low, but no going steady."
"If you grow up fat, you have to try harder."
"Why take life seriously? No one gets out alive anyways."
"Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that."
"Stoners are cute; junkies are sad."
"Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks."
"And George Carlin was a guy that the more he aged the younger he seemed."
"When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express."
"Stop…stop, that’s the next generation of fans… How dare you pass judgment on those 12-year-old girls who like vampires! They need to be encouraged because in six years they’ll be 18-year-old girls who like vampires and are into all sorts of goth-permissive and whatnot. Don’t Poo-poo it. There’s a plan, and it’s working."
"There's a trick to being whatever you want to be in life. It starts with the simple belief that you are what or who you say you are."
"In Hollywood you kind of fail upwards"
"Is man, indeed, a walrus at heart?"