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.

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

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.

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.

Faith is the light that chases the darkness of doubt away." el

You make me believe that things I’d given up on a possible.

One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless.

The writing of headline is one of the great journalistic arts. They either conceal or reveal am interest

When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits on other people. (Notes on a Cellar Book)

What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious.

He who does not seek advice is a fool. His folly blinds him to Truth and makes him evil, stubborn, and a danger to his fellow man.

If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.

At big championships it's not the fastest person, it's the person who gets it right on the day.