Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.

I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.

I probably write a poem every 50 years.

I'm much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I've always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me. I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.

The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn't think I had it in me ever, and I wasn't terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties. That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.

What's this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.