I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories.

I knew that we had an obligation and that was to keep an energy in it and try to keep the audience interested. In fact, I asked some of the actors to take a look at His Girl Friday, a Howard Hawks film with Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant, because they talk over each other and there's a great energy.

The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk.

Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?

You spend so much of your life basing yourself on what you think other people think of you. Then you realise that maybe one of the purposes of life is not to care.

I wanted to find my limitations so I decided to do Shylock. And if I fail? I've never been afraid of that. I have other fears - doing bad work knowingly is the worst fear.

I don't like the fact that I have to get older so fast, but I like the fact that I'm aging so well.