Normally, if I'm being acknowledged it is for something in front of the camera. This puts the spotlight on the fact that there are opportunities other than just being an actor.

I make a film like I cook for friends. I hope they like it, but if they don't, I'm prepared to enjoy it all by myself.

Hollywood desires money but they could not stand the political content.

I really like to talk to people and to get their take on things.

Personally, I do movies the way I cook. I put in what I like, in case nobody else likes it and I have to eat it for the rest of the week.

Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character.

Essentially, I'm, most of all, a writer. So, what makes people tick interests me.

Directors love to do music, they've been doing that all along.

Music is for theater like theater is for scripts. It's total: it's cyclical.

I was a trader for a company. That's different from the brokers who we sort of disdain as sort of just errand boys.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

You will never be free as long as there remains one Russian soldier in Poland and your freedom will always be threatened as long as Russia interferes in your affairs.

I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they, in turn, were my life lessons.

I was born looking older... and I've been aging since I was a teenager.

Do I play tennis? Man, I had one of the baddest overhead rights of anyone. Bam!

If a patient wants to live, doctors are impotent.

Like many natural beauties, New York is effortlessly photogenic. It has fabulous bones and hardly any bad angles.

No one likes to be criticized.

Why did we get together? Because God wanted us to do it. We were just trying to do what God wants us to do. We didn't feel like we had much of a choice.

I have always admired him (Bergman), and I wish I could be an equally good filmmaker as he is, but it will never happen. His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience