My springboard is always the script. Even if the script is taken from a novel, I often haven't read the novel...

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

History says, Don’t hopeOn this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetimeThe longed-for tidal waveOf justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme

There is neither replay of time nor life.

I have all my ex-girlfriends lumped into one big girlfriend I called M.A.N.D.Y.: My, Another Neurotic Disappointment? Yes.

I don't regard clothing as disposable, which is probably why I have so much of it!

To me, the screenplay only becomes the Bible of the film after the actors have been cast.

A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing.

There is no greater glory that can befall a man that what he achieves with the speed of his feet or the strength of his hands.

My family vacations were softball tournaments.

I think vulnerability and sensuality, they're sides of the same coin.

No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.