When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I'm talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I'm not talking about mental illness.
I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.
A script is not a piece of literature, it's a process.
I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
There's a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.
Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.