In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one.

A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.

On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!''

I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.

We made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Hollywood expects you to experiment but on a film that makes money and if you don't make money, you're to blame. Your job is to make money.

n Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.