A script is not a piece of literature, it's a process.

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.

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.

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

A script is not a piece of literature, it's a process.

There's a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.

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