I don't consider weed to be any worse than having a beer.

I was being generous. Gia Coppola wasn't even a filmmaker at that time, but I asked her to do it, because I believed in her as an artist. And because I wanted a woman's take on the material. The book Palo Alto is very male-centric, but Gia carved out a bunch of the female characters, and brought them to the fore in the movie. And the project was richer for it.

The selfie is the new way to look someone right in the eye and say, 'Hello, this is me.'

I don't have many hobbies. If I think of hobbies, maybe ping pong. But I don't have a desire to get a ping pong medal.

Showing the addiction and unusual sexual practices are ways of just outlining a much bigger character trait.

Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.

I am not going to be the guy who's not pulling his weight.