What happened is that in the middle of my life I went away and in my own sense of hubris, pride, cynicism, thought, I am an autonomous being in the world, I can control things, I am God.' But my experiment at being God failed! And they do have a great saying in AA: 'Get down off the cross, we need the wood!' And the important thing is to realise you are not the centre of the universe, you are not God.

I haven't committed all the crimes in my movies, I would have gotten the death penalty many years ago if I had.

What's fascinating to me is that in rich-kid schools, it's better to be gay. No one is discriminated against because they're gay in a rich-kid school. But in poor-kid schools, it's often not the same. So being gay is a class issue now.

I'd love to sell out completely. It's just that nobody has been willing to buy.

Without obsession, life is nothing.

If your kid comes out of the bedroom and says he just shut down the government, it seems to me he should at least have an outfit for that.

I don't trust anyone that hasn't been to jail at least once in their life.