Now the [smartphone] has freed everybody, and so everybody gets better. No matter what you say, people will check you out on their phone.

Look at all the drug busts all over the country. There must be an audience there somewhere. My feeling is that if we're losing the war on drugs, let's do a movie for the enemy.

There's a big shift in our whole way of living, and it started maybe 10 years ago when [smartphones] came into existence. Up until then, we were at the mercy of the press, and so-called experts that would tell us what to think and how to think.

Something good always happens at 4:20 for me.

I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater.

Marijuana at the time we were making movies [with Cheech Marine] was not that readily available and I do prefer to be coherent when I am working.

You can smoke marijuana, you can eat it, you can wear it, it's a perfect plant!