Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that's a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It's how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting.

I think I'm a much better painter than an actor.

We do two things in life: We race the clock and everything is a struggle. One way or not, it's a metaphorical battle all of the time.

I'm the Hiroshima of love.

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.

You know you've been around when they start to remake your own movies when you're still alive.