Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.

A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.

Gluttony is not a secret vice.

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.

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.

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

We made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.