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.

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

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

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.

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.

Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?

Even if you're a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you're still in the world - although I guess being a poet is a different than having to deal with 40 or 50 people to raise a couple million bucks and all that bullshit.