I don't want to live anywhere where I'm breathing two million cars' fumes and paying a zillion dollars for the right to be totally hassled.

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

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

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

I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.

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 existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there.