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

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.

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.

Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.

I like women who can cook. That's first. Love is very important, but you've got to have a friend first - you want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you're with is also your friend.

I probably write a poem every 50 years.

Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.