I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No camera. No equipment. We would shoot in the street. We had no actors. Nothing. But we wanted to do movies. And we did the best movies in the world.

I've been very lucky in my long life. On three continents, in diverse cultures, through happy moments, not-so-happy moments, and moments as marvelous as this one, I've had the privilege of working with the cinema's greatest masters.

It's a fantastic review. Sixty percent of the American reviews are sensational, 20% are mixed, not so good.

I have two young girls, 8 and 10. They really keep me young.

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

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.

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.

The pope dies, you get another pope.

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

When I cook, my brain stops completely.

We set ourselves a limit and cut characters which weren't so vital.

If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with your friends, the cinema was a world of fantasy. I had always been in love with it.

If no producer, no movie.

I see my face in the mirror, and I said, No, my ambition is not to be an actor.

To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them.

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.

Making movies is all about instinct.

Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you.

These scenes deal with what happened before Hannibal Lecter was captured for the first time.

Mr Tony Hopkins says he's willing to do it if he likes the script.

I see my face in the mirror, and I said, 'No, my ambition is not to be an actor.'

They did offer me a chance of being a V in the crowd, but it's not my scene. I think they just thought it would be fun for me to do that, but I don't know. I heard that Stan Lee appears in every movie of his.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

Most of us complain about Congress. We say it's a place that doesn't reflect us; they don't listen to us. Actually, Congress well reflects the American people. It gives us exactly what we ask for.

If you want to understand what is going on in the White House today, you have to begin with Barack Obama.

Sometimes, an inability to believe in Satan reflects a larger inability to believe in a spiritual plane at all.

There's much more we can be doing in Parliament, we could be giving more power back to people at local government level, through local referendums.

Sometimes I do feel hopeless when I look out and scream out through my music, and I scream out through these interviews, and I scream out to people to kind of get their attention back on the things that are meaningful. There's people dying on the streets of Chicago - young people, young men and women who are losing their lives.

I grew up in a very small town and didn't realise till later that I had an adventurous side. When I went to theatre school at 18, I came into my own and let loose.

As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.

I know that if I set my mind to something even if people are saying I cant do it I will achieve it.

Women hold up half the sky.

Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.

Cartooning is a wonderful career, and I'd like more women to get to have it. I can't think of any reason why we won't see more syndicated female cartoonists in the future.

I'm interested in adapting books and all sorts of things.

No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.

My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became a science fiction writer.

Technology favors horrible people.

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.

I love the sun, but we don't get on at all; it doesn't agree with my Celtic tones. I also like nothing better than putting on a big ski jacket and feeling the wind in my face.

I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore.

Credit is a promise to deliver money. It will produce GDP but you'll create credit... So you reach a certain point that that you can't do that anymore... There are choices. And how do we best support, apportion the money? How much is going to be transferred?

I like Hollywood movies. I like them like I like to eat scrambled eggs; I like them for fun.