If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters.

My philosophy is very simple. To feel young, you must work as long as you can.

The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion - and when I say emotion, I mean suspense, drama, love.

I see my face in the mirror, and I said, No, my ambition is not to be an actor.

When I cook, my brain stops completely.

After The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, the audience would like to know where, when, and who arrests Hannibal Lecter for the first time. This is the story of Red Dragon.

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

You have to kill the bad guy.

I always say my age is connected with three Cs. In here, cuore, which means the heart. Up here, cervello, which is the brain. And, of course, down here: the coglioni. I no feel my age, I tell you.

If no producer, no movie.

Making movies is all about instinct.

Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged in 1910 about the likelihood of a European war)

I once heard someone say that the concept of moderation seems a little extreme, and tonight...I agree.

If the deaf are to hear the sound has to be very loud

Somebody accused us of hiring him and putting him there. He was a classic.

Investors have no reason to feel bearish. True value investors are glad the markets are down.

We're not winning because of talent. We're just beating bad teams.

Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being.

When you see a guy flying into the air on fire, that's not me, obviously. I do all the water tricks, though.

It's a great day. Now, go make it that way.

But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror.