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

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

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.

You can’t know what is impossible until you are willing to venture past what is possible.

His presence fogged my mind, warmed my blood, kept the darkness at bay – maybe because he was the darkness itself.

I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real.... Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.

Privatized faith in a resurrected Christ is practically inconceivable.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love

I will insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it.

Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.

If people are jumping down people's throats all the time, in the end, they'll just shrivel up like a flower shrivels up that's not watered.

So we face our final hours...and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all our stories.

One of the most important things about social media is knowing when to put the phone down and experience your life.