I see Macbeth as a young, open-faced warrior, who is gradually sucked into a whirpool of events because of his ambition. When he meets the weird sisters and hears their prophecy, he's like the man who hopes to win a million-a gamble for high stakes.

I never made a film which fully satisfied me.

I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing.

I don't really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have to show how they cut off his head. If you don't, it's like tel…

The wheel of Fortune tourneth as a ball; Sodeyn clymbyng axeth a sodeyn fall.

Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.

If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.