There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.

Sometimes if you have financial restraints, it's a benefit. It forces you to come up with a more creative way.

Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.

My mother worked for a woman, Maria Ley-Piscator, who with her husband founded the Dramatic Workshop, which was connected to the New School. My mother did proofreading and typing and stuff or her, and as part of her payment, I was able to take acting classes there on Saturdays when I was 10.

Good directors can bring certain things out of you, with their intensity or gentleness or sensitivity or understanding. They can make an actor feel he can do no wrong.

There are certain things I am clueless about as far as the new technologies. I see these people in front of these computers all day and I don't know what they are doing - they are doing something, obviously - with Facebook, Instagram and all that. I am aware of it, but basically not in touch.

Movies are hard work. The public doesn't see that. The critics don't see it. But they're a lot of work. A lot of work.