Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now.

In many ways, when you're young and sexy, it's very annoying to be whistled at and to have someone always trying to attract your attention, but now when it happens I find myself registering the fact almost warmly.

I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything.

You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut.

I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you.

My father was absent and he was a hero to me.

I avoided nudity unless a film couldnt be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element, yet nudity and male fantasies have become emblematic of my work.