The director reflects on getting a star on the Walk of Fame and a museum retrospective about his career as a cinematic provocateur.
I am convinced he does his hair himself with Just for Men—the worst dye any man can ever put on his head—and his color wheel is Honey Blond. It’s one long strand, and only he has ever seen it. But, if he ever goes to jail, they’ll delouse him, and that hairdo will come down like Rapunzel.
You heard what happened with the Academy Museum and my exhibition, right? There was kind of a mistake, because they always have drag hour for kids with almost all their exhibitions, and accidentally it was released that they were going to have it for my movies. Of course,adults, not comfort children.” But then I thought, It would be kind of great—Peaches Christ telling the kids, “You can sing with your asshole, too!” Or Dina Martina saying, “Romper, stomper, bomper, boo.
So many of them weren’t actors in any traditional sense. I’m fascinated by the acting style in those movies. No, I was thrilled by it. I wanted each cent. I always wanted to make hit movies. I always wanted them to be commercially successful. I always thought theybe. And the Hollywood situation was gradual. I’ve made every kind of movie. I started underground, and then did midnight movies, then independent, then Hollywood. And then I slid right back down to independent and then Hollywood underground, and that’s where I am now.
I’ve had many, many projects that were put in turnaround. Since “A Dirty Shame,” there have been five other movies that didn’t happen. But I was paid—it was a whole development process. And during that time I’ve written books. I do forty standup shows a year. So it’s not like I’ve been slacking. When you were in your fifties, you wrote, “Being insane when you’re young is sexy; insane at fifty is pitiful.” How do you feel about turning eighty in three years?insane. You can think up insane movies, insane poetry. But you have to carry yourself with a certain dignity. Even if you’re over fifty and go to the gym, we still don’t want to see you naked on an airplane.I use two whole water picks every night before I go to sleep to brush my teeth, so I don’t get tooth decay.
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