There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.

We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then... life goes on.

I'm not right wing, I'm not left wing. I love my country.

I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

I really have very little aspirations about acting because I think that probably the best things have come and gone. I would like to focus on writing and directing. I love writing and directing even though writing can be incredibly painful and lonely. I get great satisfaction from doing it.

Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification.

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?