I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play.

You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap.

The eye condition that I have is Marfan's Syndrome.

My grandfather was a chef for a Baron in Sicily before he came to America. I grew up with him. I used to do my homework at one end of the kitchen table while he cooked at the other end.

What makes cookbooks interesting is to find out about the people and the culture that invented the food.

I had a wonderful time playing Dr. Kaufman in Tomorrow Never Dies. It was a real Bond villain, over the top, almost laughable but dangerous.

I get to meet a lot of people, and I really like people.

I shot this wonderful picture called American Saint a couple of years ago, which is still looking for release.

To be a Bond villain, you only get to do that once in your life. You never get to come back.

I met Milos in 1967. I was working on a student film. And there is Milos Forman. So that's how I met Milos.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

If it weren't for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

I love the gangster genre, but how many gangster movies are there? If I get a good gangster movie script, I'll do it.

If I had my way everyone would have a psychiatrist. When the brain is sick and you must throw up, you do it by being purged in a psychiatrist's office.

How readily the bluebirds become our friends and neighbors when we offer them suitable nesting retreats!

It's hard being bisexual, omnisexual, multisexual, whatever you want to call it, when people have their agenda and expect you to just represent their agenda.

One cannot separate the health of the individual from the health of the community, from the health of the world.

I always want to know which tracks are the journalists' favourites.

Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done.

With four? Doing a little... Addition? Multiplication?