• On working with Rebecca Gayheart
"We made out as much as possible."

• On Pam Grier
"My brand of humor does not go over big with her. She'd just look at me, and I'd know she could knock me down with one blow."

• On having 'Courtney Shayne' / evil moments
"I'm a pussycat unless you do something to one of my friends. Then I'll think of unique ways to get back at you. I'm more creative than your average bear."

• "I love Courtney Shayne, she was hilarious. She was very misunderstood. People said she was so evil and I say, Well, she was just a sociopath. And not to let sociopaths off the hook because O.J. [Simpson] certainly did it, but he doesn't think he did it. And people are like, she was diabolical... Yes, but accidentally. She didn't think so. I actually based it on a Gene Tierney character in Leave Her to Heaven."

• Courtney: "We just killed our best friend! Do you realize what this means?"
Marcie: "You're a shoo-in for prom queen?"

• "Rape... they'll check to se if she was raped right? Maybe Liz had a friend over, you know, mommy and daddy's last night away, maybe he's from school, maybe not. But definitely into kink. He got a little rough, went a little to far, you know, there's a fine line between pleasure and pain. She screamed for help, but no one could hear her. Her screams were muffled by the huge candy ball, she tried, but there was nothing, only sugary sweet death."

• "They'll believe it because it's thier worst nightmare: Elizabeth Purr, the very picture of teenage perfection, obliterated by perversion. "

• "OK, reality check, Liz is in the trunk of this car. And she is dead. That is a sad, fucked up thing, but you are going to walk into that school and strut your shit down the hallway like everything is peachy fucking keen - get it?"

• "I'm Courtney Shayne. I don't think we've officially met what with the cruel politics of high school and all."

• "I made you and I'm God. That's all you need to know."

• "I could use some kink."

• "Listen bitch - one word and you're over."

• Courtney: "Life's a bitch, then you die."
Julie: "No, honey. You're the bitch!"
Courtney: "Oh, so agressive, Julie! Kind of turns me on."

• Marilyn Manson was given his cameo part because he was engaged to Rose McGowan at the time the movie was made. He came up with the idea himself.

• Rose ad-libbed one line during the scene she did with Manson, but it was cut from the film. The line? "Do it to me, daddy, do it to your bad, bad girl." Rose thought it was a funny and retarded thing to say.

• Rose based her character on a Gene Tierney character in Leave Her to Heaven.

• Rose wears a light blue turtle neck sweater with diamond cut outs down the front. Manson gave it to Rose, she asked the director if she could wear it in the movie.