Don't let people treat you like a cigarette, they only use you when they're bored and step on you when they're done. Be like drugs, let them die for you.

Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.

People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.

I would definitely say pleasure is not happiness. Because I think I kill pleasure. Like I take too much of it in, and therefore make it un-pleasurable, like too much coffee, and you're miserable.

There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.

Actors are responsible to the people we play. I don't label or judge. I just play them as honestly and expressively and creatively as I can.

You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way.