I do always feel very proud and flattered by being asked to be a part of American productions playing American characters.

It's always very strange to have your life dramatized because it never happens like that. Things will be different.

You can't deny reality just because you can't explain it.

They know you're not Alfred Hitchcock, but you need to be enough Alfred Hitchcock for them not to be bothered by it. That's a reassuring thing.

I often get sent scripts about little men in big situations. There's a comic element to it, which is forces stacked against this little guy, and how is he going to defeat them?

I don't know if it's harder but when you're playing a real person you want to honor their memory - even if they're a criminal or someone that the public loathed. That can be challenging.

One key element to Hitchcock is the drooping jowl. That was crucial because his silhouette is crucial. There is something about his silhouette that became his brand.

I'd love most of the movies I make to be four hours long.

There are far more good actors than there are jobs for them, so it's a big question of luck.

There's not a huge pile of scripts at home. It's what happens to be on the table at that moment with your availability. And then you have no control over when these things come out.

Certainly for my father, there were great times, good times, not-so-good times. He might be shooting a Fellini film for six months, then not working for two months. I'm used to that dynamic.

You're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.

The holes in my boots and the holes in my jeans make me whole!

In the end only kindness matters.

Heat in her birds of prey fingertips, smoke of gilded flowers in her aureate gorging hair.

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

Dignity and quiet joy in all that we do are the expression of perfect concentration and perfect wisdom.

Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.

He who pretends to look upon death without fear, lies

And if my choice is to sit graciously in my best robes and accept the inevitable or to bail a sea with a bucket, give me the bucket.

I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.