“That’s crazier than a boatload of prostitutes!”
— J. Richard Singleton
“I love Las Vegas because it’s the one city less classy than Los Angeles.”
— J. Richard Singleton
“Los Angeles is a city made up of refugees from better cities.”
— J. Richard Singleton
“[Truman] didn’t want to fight the guy, whatever he was—alien, vampyr or douchebag.”
— J. Richard Singleton
“The truth is like sunlight: It causes cancer.”
— J. Richard Singleton
“You have to think if we’ve been visited by extraterrestrial life, it was like a zookeeper walking into the chimp enclosure: He looks around, takes some pictures, then leaves without interacting significantly with the environment. Meanwhile the chimps have no idea what the fuck just happened.”
— J. Richard Singleton
“Life…. It’s better than the alternative.”
— J. Richard Singleton
“I love animals, especially with barbeque sauce.”
— J. Richard Singleton
“Later film shoots’ casting calls would advertise that they’re “fun shoots” and a “good way to get exposure”—but working in entertainment is not entertaining, even though it is not what’s traditionally thought of as “work.” You know what’s fun, indie filmmakers? Being paid for your time.”
— J. Richard Singleton
“I guess we all travel through life in a haze of sorts. A fog. The people we only meet in the fog we allow ourselves to lose because it’s not our fault. It’s the fog’s. The people we latch onto—they become our friends. It was my friendship with Ethan that took me out of the fog.”
— J. Richard Singleton
“I try not to let other people’s problems problem me.”
— J. Richard Singleton
“No man wants his daughter to be the kind of girl whom he liked in high school.”
— J. Richard Singleton
“You can’t make a woman love you. Not even with duct tape.”
— J. Richard Singleton
“If there’s one thing I know about women, it’s that they have vaginas.”
— J. Richard Singleton