I've had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people - you could almost call them marriages, even though I didn't marry. But it was costly.

When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story, the story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I'm struggling with - my own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.

If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.

I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.

Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment.

My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom - it was almost overwhelming.

I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don't know how long she'll run away from it, but it's there in her.