If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?

Most movies shot in Italian don't even bother to record the sound. In fact, sometimes when Fellini works, he doesn't even know what the dialogue is going to be, and he simply has his characters count from 1 to 10, knowing he will loop in their dialogue later.

You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think.

Nothing is impossible, only mathematically improbable.

After I began to make some money, my brain-damaged accountant put me in one business after another that went bad. The only one that panned out was a small bank, an old Scottish firm with London offices in Pall Mall. I was a director. We sold out to a larger bank. That was the only successful venture I've had, apart from acting.

More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.

There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing.