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'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.

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.

I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.

I don't want to live anywhere where I'm breathing two million cars' fumes and paying a zillion dollars for the right to be totally hassled.

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music.