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.

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 more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing.

The last day of your life is still going to be a day.

I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.

Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.