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.

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

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.

As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.

I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.

In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.