There are many ingredients that go into making a film. It baffles me, what works and what doesn't.

I respect generosity in people, and I respect it in companies too, I don't look at it as philanthropy; I see it as an investment in the community.

I like racing but food and pictures are more thrilling. I can't give them up. In racing you can be certain, to the last thousandth of a second, that someone is the best, but with a film or a recipe, there is no way of knowing how all the ingredients will work out in the end. The best can turn out to be awful and the worst can be fantastic. Cooking is like performing and performing like cooking.

I believe there can be dignity in the acting profession. And I think there ought to be more dignity in the publicity an actor gets.

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

You got to have two things to win. You got to have brains and you got to have balls. Now you've got too much of one and not enough of the other.

I think it's very desirable to be an individual and a free thinker.