I'm a junkie. I like drugs, I like the whole lifestyle, but it just didn't pay off.

I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.

I'm thinking of remaking 'Psycho' again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a punk rocker setting.

Silent is about needing to make a scene shorter by having physical things to cut to. That way, you can manipulate a character to the other side of the room. But, if they say the wrong thing, it might locate that action in a particular part of the scene. It's a mechanical need.

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.

When you get to be 23, 24 or 25, you start to freeze up and become an adult.