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.

My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.

I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.

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 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.

I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.