The interesting thing about this is I don't know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about. I'm sensing something and I'm going….

I never saw myself as a director. It's certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making m….

Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'.

Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me..

Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?.

When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens..

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying….

I would say I am more concerned with the plays I'm going to do than the movies. I'm more comfortable in a play. In film, there's always a certain sen….

Failure's relative. I've always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something's not right about that. It's how you treat failure, too….

We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day. I don't care if it's a walk in the park, a look out the window, a g….

Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer..

I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools..

When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That's par for the course.When you're a movie star, it went with it. It's a kind of rite of passage, soc….

When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story, the story of Salome, the….

I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could - I cou….

After looking at Salomaybe, I don't know who the hell the real me is. I think it's closest now to the real me because for one thing, I'm used to this..

Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted..

I'm much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I've always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me. I put comedy as much ….

Any project that I find encouraging that isn't attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what….

If something is working, don't fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow..

I haven't encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way. I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and….