I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing.

If young actors ask me things, I always tell them to get on set and watch how it's done. If you can, watch the people that you like, how they work.

If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens.

I think [kids] enjoy reading, but it's a different world now. There are a lot of competitors for the imaginative attention.

I love Doctor Who and I remember the first one, which was wonderful in its low-tech quality. I also loved the theme song, which sounded like The Cure to me. Which character would I like to play in Doctor Who? Who's the bad guy? The Dalek? OK, I'll play him.

I'm inspired as a writer by any place where I've lived for a significant amount of time that have memories, my past, and stories attached to them, and that's really New York and L.A. Any place where there's ghosts are inspiring.

Patrick Stewart was the first internet sex symbol without hair but pileggi always thought it was him.