Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.

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.

Life, weddings, relationships, road trips, gardening, making out, haircuts: few of the fun things in life always go as expected.

Don’t live life, without an enthusiasm of existence.

I've seen innovation come from something as simple as a resourceful multibillionaire who wanted to make even more money.

I played against him (Wilkins) in college. Getting nominated with him, that's pretty cool.

When we have the means to pay for what we desire, what we get is not so much what is best, as what is costliest.

We must depend upon the Boy Scout Movement to produce the MEN of the future.

Live like you're at the bottom, even if you're at the top

Look, a lot of people don't think that the way that I live my life is a real thing, that it exists, that having a broad spectrum of sexual orientation is even possible.

The Lord continues to empty us in order to teach us to lay aside all self-reliance, that we may cling to Christ alone.

Sometimes it is better to have someone you mistrust close to you, so that you can keep an eye on him - Chiron