I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me.

How do you play Hannibal Lector? Well just don't move. Scare people by being still.

Oh, the truth, oh yeah, lot of trouble that got us into, didn't it, over the last maybe thousand years? Hitler knew the truth, so did Stalin, so did Mao Zedong, so did the Inquisition. They all knew the truth and that caused such horror. Certainty is the enemy.

I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.

I'm just an actor. It's the way the script is written, and it's easy. I don't have think about it. When you receive the script, you know pretty well how to play it, apart from little technicalities like the accent.

Keep low expectations and life gets pretty good.

When I was a young guy, I knew everything. Now I know very little. I know less and less as the time goes on.