Making movies is all about instinct.

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.

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.

You surely remember your past when you rebuke me in honesty.

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

Well, I have my immortal soul. At least, I'm pretty sure I didn't misplace it somewhere along the way.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

There is no crisis in this country that requires us to set up a crisis headquarters. Iran is currently in a good situation.

You betrayed me too. I'm just better at it than you.

There it is: I am gently slipping into the water's depths, towards fear.

There's one thing that life does where ever it goes- it begats life.

You have to imagine a waiting that is not impatient because it is timeless.