Weirdness Quotes

I have a lot of actor friends who worked with their parents closely and have had really horrible experiences. They end up suing or being emancipated. The wonderful thing about my mom (who is also her manager) is that she completely respects my creative weirdness and supports any decision I make.

Weirdness is not my game. I`m just a square boy from Wisconsin.

It`s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.

I generally don`t make films to entertain people. I choose the parts that challenge me to break through my own barriers. A need to devour, punish, humiliate, or surrender seems to be a primal part of human nature, and it`s certainly a big part of sex. To discover what normal means, you have to surf a tide of weirdness.

I don`t imagine my parents are too excited about my kind of life. The surrounding weirdness bothers them. Still, I think they`re pretty good. Their lives are based on what their friends think, just like ours are.

Ever since Harold and Maude (1971), people have generally regarded me as an arbiter of weirdness. So, I`ll tell you what I find weird: I find malice, violence and poverty weird. But, more than that, I find Hollywood package deals weird. Agents are always sending me scripts and then reneging, telling me that I`m not Robert De Niro.