I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could - I could embody him. I could, you know, I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It's almost like a painter having a model to become.

I probably write a poem every 50 years.

They say we die twice - once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.

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

Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?

Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you're going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.

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