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MICHAEL JACKSON: "Well, it shows just how sick heterosexuality can get."

TABLOID TV: "Never watch TV, I read. I know that sounds so offensive, but it's the truth. Tabloid TV I don't watch–I'm against it because they're always saying 'Isn't this horrible?' and doing something worse."

TONYA HARDING: "Little interest, and everyone thought I would love her. They were wrong. She was 'bad' bad taste."

TATTOOS: "Looks so bad when you're 50. Someone's gonna make a fortune taking generations of it off, ’cause, boy, when you're 50 and in a bathing suit with a tattoo, does it look bad."

PIERCING: "I get it–it's a good way to get on my generation's nerves. If you have parents you live with, it's a good one. I think next is having your ears or lips removed–surgery for style."

PRESIDENT CLINTON: "I was really in love with his mother. I really voted for him because of his mother's eyebrows. They looked like they were stenciled on. I would still vote for Clinton again–I mean, he's trying, I wish he was better at politics to make things work, but it's tough. I don't know if anybody could do what I want them to do as president. I do want to have sex in a voting booth. That's one thing I've been thinking about a lot lately."

LOUNGE MUSIC: "I know, that's the new thing–all these kids are sending me tapes of Martin Denny and all that kind of stuff. Well, I liked it the first time around so it's a little perplexing to me now that it's back. But I always liked it, so fine, it's more available–all that stuff in Incredibly Strange Music is incredibly interesting. It's good, I'm all for it. That's a trend I never would have predicted."

And On His Contemporaries:

KEVIN SMITH'S CLERKS: "It should give all young people incentive because here's a movie that cost $27,000 that is great–it's really a great script. And that's what it's always about–scripts. It's not about camera angles and it's not about technique–it's about a wonderful script. And this is very, very funny and very new. And I always like directors who take you into their own world, even if it's a world you hate. This is a director to watch."

QUENTIN TARANTINO'S PULP FICTION: "It's a great movie. I'm quick to praise other directors' work. I'm not the kind of director that resents younger directors' success. I think it's great. I think Quentin Tarantino makes wonderful, knowingly good, brilliant trash. I was with Pedro Almodóvar and Quentin at this festival in Italy–we were kidding Quentin: How could you make such a great movie? But of course we were both generally happy to see a great new movie by somebody."

OLIVER STONE'S NATURAL BORN KILLERS: "Well, I think it's certainly worth seeing. I think Oliver Stone ruins his own movies every time, though. I think there's great stuff in it. I think technically it's one of the most adventurous experimental Hollywood movies we've ever had. But then it becomes preachy and bombastic and too obvious. Of all the things Oliver Stone has done, I think he made one brilliant movie, which was Salvador. He is too bombastic for me, although I certainly think he's a good American film maker."

RICHARD GERE'S INTERSECTION: "The best kind of trashy movies are certainly the ones that don't know they're bad. I think my favorite good trash movie of the year was Intersection with Richard Gere–yeah, I liked it a lot. No one but myself did."

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