I'll never kick dogs, I'll never hurt a child, I'll never slap a woman - three things I won't do on film.

One day, something happened. It made life very precious to me.

I don't care where I work. Films are an international business - not an American institution.

Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me.

Audiences just naturally hate me on screen. I could play a role in a tuxedo and people would think I was rotten. You can do much more with a villain part.

You go where the work is. It can be in my own back yard, Israel, Spain, or Yugoslavia. We may have the greatest technical efficiency in the world, but our artistic values are not necessarily the best.

I tried to learn the languages - Italian, Spanish, and German - not to successfully. Working on a European set isn't a hell of a lot different from working on an American set.