Actor

If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.

See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm.

I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.

I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.