I like to give the actors freedom to take what we have on the page and improve on it. And they do that quite a bit.

We drink and we die and continue to drink.

Campbell [Scott] also directed me in a film with Hope Davis called Final. That was the first thing we did together, but I've known him for years.

The best pitch I ever heard about cocaine was back in the early eighties when a street dealer followed me down the sidewalk going: I got some great blow man. I got the stuff that killed Belushi.

I've only done two other TV shows [instead of Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll], one was Rescue Me and the other was a show called The Job, which was at ABC and only on for two seasons.

The best thing about series TV is that everyone you work with is hand-picked, as compared to working on a film.

I didn't raise my kids with the fear of God.