When you're pushed killing is as easy as breathing.

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

It's great the way the old-time directors used to manipulate the hell out of you. You see someone dying and all of a sudden a ghost would come out and they go walking hand in hand up the stairway.

Boxing is a great exercise ... as long as you can yell "cut" whenever you want to.

I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous.

I'm astounded by people who take eighteen years to write something. That's how long it took that guy to write Madame Bovary, and was that ever on the best-seller list?

Lighting can bring out certain contours in the body, in the face, in the eyes, that otherwise flat lighting couldn't.