Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.

My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

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.

The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.