Shocking Sayings

My movies are painfully personal but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are it's my job to make it be personal and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is

I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me i am the audience.

Not every movie needs to be made. Not every movie should be made.

Filmmaking can be a democratic process. In which other people, other than rich white men, can make movies.

My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is.

It's that idea that you can have one drink - and no you can't.

Cocaine for me was a place to hide. Most people get hyper on coke. It slowed me down. Sometimes it made me paranoid and impotent, but mostly it just made me withdrawn.

It's just literally being afraid. And you think, oh, [the alcohol] will ease the fear. And it doesn't.

For that first week you lie to yourself, and tell yourself you can stop, and then your body kicks back and says, no, stop later. And then it took about three years, and finally you do stop.

One day [when I relapsed] I walked into a store and saw a little bottle of Jack Daniel's. And then that voice - I call it the 'lower power' - goes, 'Hey. Just a taste. Just one.' I drank it, and there was that brief moment of 'Oh, I'm okay!' But it e…

If you're that depressed, reach out to someone. And remember, suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

Being a functioning alcoholic is kind of like being a paraplegic lap dancer — you can do it, just not as well as the others, really.

See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.

Political correctness cripples discourse, creates ugly language and is generally stupid.

On Election Day, I stay home. Two reasons: first of all, voting is meaningless; this country was bought and paid for a long time ago. That empty shit they shuffle around and repackage every four years doesn't mean a thing. Second, I don't vote, becau…

When I hear a person talking about political solutions, I know I am not listening to a serious person.

I don't like ass kissers, flag wavers, or team players. I like people who buck the system. Individualists.

Sooner or later the people in this country are going to realize: the government does not give a fuck about them. The government doesn't care about you, or your children, or your rights, or your welfare, or your safety. It simply doesn't give a fuck a…

The word bipartisan usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out.

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood. Especially if it's me!