Quotes from Bobcat Goldthwait

To make the films I want, I just have to live within my means and scale down my lifestyle - and be with somebody who's cool with that.

My approach to making movies is different than other people, because I just write a lot of screenplays. I'm constantly writing screenplays.

I'm the Emily Dickinson of screenplays.

The environment on the sets of the movies I make, it's usually all friends and people that know each other, because no one's getting rich or making money, so it's always about, hopefully, that everyone's on the same page.

I don't find movies shocking.

People seem to think that I'm not aware of how people perceive me. But I'm the one that has to talk about 'Police Academy' all day long 27 years later. I'm totally aware of it.

In the past, the movies I've made are perceived as dark, but a lot of comedies are way darker.

I'm fully aware of people's perception of me, so when I start taking myself too seriously, I have to remember that, to them, I'm just the guy from 'Police Academy.'

I'm always dealing with this sadness. I don't want to be Morrissey or anything, but it is a thing I deal with it. Every day, when I wake up, I have to make a decision to fight this depression. That sounds horrible but I'm fine with it; it's who I am; it's my life. I try not to let it cripple me.

Success is for creeps.

I like movies that don't fit in a category. Like, 'Get Out' - that was one of my favorite movies in a long time, and what is that?

It's really hard to watch Leno. I set his chair on fire.

Occasionally I'll have a slip, and I might watch 'RuPaul's Drag Race' or something. But for the most part, I am out on the reality shows.

I never was obsessed with comedians. When I was a little, little boy, I'd watch, like, George Carlin on 'Dinah Shore.'

I'm not into comedies that are joke-driven.

Every week, there's a different equivalent of Charlie Sheen having a breakdown. I knew about Kim Kardashian getting married - and then getting divorced - and there's no reason I should. I don't have hostility toward Kim Kardashian - just toward the people who take that stuff seriously.

The movies I make, I never see them as accurately portraying a life, but more like fables.

I was actually offered a talk show on CBS at one point, and I just didn't want to do it.

Trust me: I entertain Joe Six-Pack 30 weekends a year. I don't really think that I'm an elitist.

If I ever got to do television, I would be interested in doing different kinds of characters and stories, and television doesn't lend itself to that.

I was in this hamster wheel of being famous for being famous, much like a reality star. You would put me on a talkshow, I would say outrageous things. I was just perpetuating myself as a celebrity, and I found that really empty.

Sometimes the wheels just fall off a relationship.

The first time I was on Letterman, I was, like, 20 years old, and I was on a show called 'Camping with Barry White Night.'

I like writing and directing. I enjoy telling stories, and I think it's born in a comedian to end up directing.