Quotes

When a director hires a producer, you're in deep shit. A director needs a boss, not a yes man.

[speaking to women] If you're ever approached with the line, "You ought to be in pictures, I'm a producer", tell the guy to fuck off. He's a fraud, and the pictures he wants to put you in don't play in theaters.

[about his proposal to Catherine Oxenberg while recovering from a stroke, which resulted in a 12-day marriage] I was very, very seductive but in fact I was crazy. My brain was swollen still.

I didn't hang around with famous people . . . they hung around with me.

The producer is the most important element of a film. It's the producer who hires the director . . . The producer buys the property, he hires the writer, the director; he's involved in hiring all the actors, involved with production, costs, post-production and involved with marketing. He's on a film for four or five years and gets very little credit for it.

A love story could be for an evening, a week, a month, it could be forever. There is a big difference between like, love, in love and lust.

. . . I believe that rules are made to be broken but I believe that vows made between two people must be adhered to. And I got married two weeks ago, and my vows are what we're talking about now: the four Ls. My vows are very simple: like, love, in love and lust--if we are to make our union work, I vow to adhere to at least two of them every day. One of them has to be like, because like is very important. And if you can't, something's wrong.

I've always been a gambler; I've always taken risks. Anyone who says you will always win if you take a risk is a liar, because it's not a risk then.

It's not just what you pay the actors, everything goes up when you do it [in Hollywood], it just grows and grows. But the English artists I was working with cared more about what they were doing than how much they were paid to do it. It's not that way in America, I hate to say it but it's true.

When I went out to L.A., I knew one thing: property is king. No one wanted me--there's nothing worse than a pretty boy actor who wants to be a producer, especially a lousy actor. And I bought a property called "The Detective" to get my foot in the door. So I went to 20th Century-Fox and demanded a three-picture deal and got it. Without the property, they wouldn't have given me anything.

If I wrote the truth of what I know, the book would be 10,000 pages.

Success means never having to admit you're unhappy.

[on ex flame Barbara Carrera] Barbara is one hundred percent woman - she knows how to make a man feel like a man.