A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.
The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
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 direct, and I make movies I can't finance. I can't raise money. I can't sell anything. I make things.
I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing.