There's a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.

No one can stop me from talking about my movie.

Even if you're a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you're still in the world - although I guess being a poet is a different than having to deal with 40 or 50 people to raise a couple million bucks and all that bullshit.

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

My job is going to be to direct the film - I'm going to do it. And that's where my job ends.

The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.

I don't need to push myself. I don't need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat. I'm trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.