Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door..

Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want..

But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is ….

When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I'm talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I'm not talking ab….

There's a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death..

I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film..

My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there..

In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves..

The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me..

My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it..

That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you..

Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?.

I live with a bunch of yuppies and models..

It's always a problem when you're working with people you don't really know. Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting. You know, thes….

I'm in a house where if the washing machine shuts off, it sings a song. If iPad gets a message, it sings a song. I'm living in a real postmodern time….

I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody..

Even if you're a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you're still in the world - although I guess being a poet is a different than having to de….

The last day of your life is still going to be a day..

A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films..

Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings..

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting..