A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.

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.

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

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

Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.

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.

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