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

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.

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.

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

The true character of a man is not seen through his choices, but the passion in his heart.

I don't know why, but there's always the part of you, the part that hides in the shadows protecting the self-destruct button, that doesn't ever want to leave the dark behind.

Ideas tyrannize the man who has but few.

The soul is awakened through service.

As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a 'singularity.'

I'm naturally shy but I've done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.

Fighters before a fight, they shouldn't get riled up.

Truth has to fall on fertile soil.

I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.

The written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here. It was a sluggish country.