I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.

I went to New Orleans for the first time for Wild at Heart, and I kept going back to make more movies there. I've become very close to the city and part of me does feel like a New Orleanian.

Film has lost something in the translation to high tech. It's become so super-real. It's with digital this and stereo that, and everything's like a CD.

I don't want to sit around by the pool luxuriating with a margarita. That's just not what I want to do.

How do you rebel in a family of rebels?

I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.

I don't know if my wife left me because of my drinking or I started drinking 'cause my wife left me.