That's just my disposition - to create a situation where you have to come up with something.

That's just my disposition - to create a situation where you have to come up with something.

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

Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself.

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.

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 was looking for people who didn't have any preconceptions about films, what I call the "post-rules" generation.