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

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.

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

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

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

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.

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