A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually.

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television.

An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before?

I used to love going into local hardware stores, to look at little things they made locally. Nowadays it's harder, though you can still do it in Vietnam.

I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies.

There's nothing creative about living within your means.

Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.

We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food.

You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.

If the movie works, nobody notices the mistakes... If the movie doesn't work, the only thing people notice are mistakes.

Students should be told, how to think, not what to think.

The loneliness of command had made Eisenhower emotionally self-sufficient.

We don't even know how to rest anymore.

I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

I'm motivated by injustice, which is embedded and constant and wrong - not by a vernacular soundboard.

Maybe you should stay with your mama, you're kind of stupid and ugly, too.

As the snake is separate from its slough, even so is the Spirit separate from the body.

I'm curious how you'll know it works. I assume it's mostly a cosmetic change.