If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.
The reality is that in much of industrialized societies, we are completely addicted to comfort. We are a society of addicts.
What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything.
I was an addict. That's why,. . . I tell you, addiction is a very cunning enemy.
I didn't become a drug addict because I always had to make a movie.
I wasn't involved in anything. I wasn't out - you know, I know I wasn't in ACT UP. I wasn't with Larry Kramer. I wasn't by his side. I wasn't saying what I should do, because, by all accounts, I was a drug addict and an alcoholic. And I was living in a complete bubble of self-absorption.