I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.

When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

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.

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.

I'm a lurid character!