I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters.

I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it.

Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.

I also saw the Dalai Lama a few times.

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera.

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.