I could be with a woman in a bed, for weeks even, and it would seem to me like three seconds. Or 300 years..

Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets..

Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn't have done it.

About 25 years ago, I was in an apartment, and next door, they put on the radio, so I struck the wall with my fist, but they did not put the radio do….

You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto..

At sixteen I get drafted. When I read the draft notice, I cry. Not because I'm a coward - I'm not afraid of anyone. But I don't want to kill or be ki….

You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame..

You have to protect yourself, your body, your being. You cannot treat it badly; you have to keep it, make as sensitive as possible.

I didn't choose solitude..

Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries..

Working with a great director is wonderful for an actor because it means that you're not forced to take the advice of an idiot..

If I hadn't refused Ken Russell, Fellini and Spielberg and made their movies when they asked me, my life would be no different. It is not my fault th….

Whenever I was with a woman, I always sort of want another one. So there was always another one. I can't explain this, but it means that these women,….

I didn't want to be alone, but I had to learn that the dimensions of my feelings are too violent. I had to learn this..

I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive..

Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent.

I knew there were, in myself, the souls of millions of people who lived centuries ago; not just people but animals, plants, the elements, things, eve….

But words - words are not enough!.

The street kid in me says, "Grab the money and run - who cares who it's from! Don't think about whatever you have to do for it or when you have to do….