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

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

I've always said that the artist dies twice. And the first death is the hardest which is the career death, the creative death. The physical death is an inevitability.

I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.

Gangster is the truest friend I can ever ask for.

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