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

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

I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.

I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.

I’m living in a real postmodern time – every single thing sings to you to tell you it’s started, it’s stopped, you’ve got a message, you didn’t get a message.

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

And get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.

I grew up in the ’60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn’t that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

Рow can we be, even if it is the last day on earth? It’s like Christmas Eve. “Okay, it’s going to be Christmas.

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

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

And the people doing them don’t even know each other, or know each other under pressure, or know each other when things are really

When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I’m talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I’m not talking about mental illness.

My job is going to be to direct the film – I’m going to do it. And that’s where my job ends.

The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark

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

No one can stop me from talking about my movie.

I started drinking Scotch just to be a man.

Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer.

You need to drink the drink, not act drinking the drink. You’ve got to do things and not show them.

Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high

Reality doesn’t have any preconceived ideas. You’ve got to learn how to smoke the cigarette, not act smoking the cigarette.

Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.

Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.

Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.