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

I have the rights to all the books where the character of Hannibal Lecter appears, I acquired these by buying the rights to Red Dragon.

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

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

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

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.

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

Italian industry was so poor we had no money for studio, to create the set, to go anyplace. We had to shoot everything in the street.

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

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

In an Italian newspaper, an Italian critic wrote something very bad and said that the American critics would also kill Hannibal. But it’s not true.

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

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.