John Turturro

If a film doesn't play, people aren't going to be that nice.

I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son.

When you sit down and watch something alone, you're going to watch it for what it is.

I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.