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.

Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.

I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

It's always a problem when you're working with people you don't really know. Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting. You know, these month - or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on, and the people doing them don't even know each other, or know each other under pressure, or know each other when things are really... Which filmmaking is completely done under in many circumstances. You're under constant crisis, making a movie.

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

That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.