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.

Рow can we be, even if it is the last day on earth? It's like Christmas Eve. "Okay, it's going to be Christmas. So what. What are you going to do? Jump off the Empire State Building?" It's all still the same. The last day of your life is still going to be a day. Then there's that thing, maybe it's not true. Who knows? Are you going to believe it? Are you going to buy it? There are a lot of other things that are important, you know. You know what they say. Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?

With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get.

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

I direct, and I make movies I can't finance. I can't raise money. I can't sell anything. I make things.

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