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.

There's a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.

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.

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.

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

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.

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