You think it's a blessing to know what God wants? I'll tell you what he wants. He wants to push me over! Can't he see what's inside of me? All my sins.

Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors.

Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

Nobody has shot a strip club in black and white in a long time.

Now I see it clearly. My whole life has pointed in one direction. I see that now. There never has been any choice for me.

When you have people who are embarrassing themselves for a living, who are making themselves look foolish and vulnerable and emotional for a living, your day-to-day reality is going to be a high-wire act. People are going to get in fights. People are going to get upset. People are going to walk off set. People are going to call each other names. It happens on every film that has any emotional people.

I don't think it's very useful to open wide the door for young artists; the ones who break down the door are more interesting.