Anything that you think is wild or fun, or can't wait to see or show your friends, go for it.

The more you travel, the better you get at it.

In my films that I've directed, and my work in commercials and videos, I've rarely used handheld. It's just not something I'm drawn to, but I've seen it done very well.

When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

As a director myself, you really appreciate collaborating with people who are trying to help you find what you need and what you want.

I really value distinctive movies, movies that feel that they came from a person that was really something that they had conceived and they made and is a reflection of who they are.

I love 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' and I love 'Bugsy Malone.' I haven't seen 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks' in a long time, but I remember loving it as a kid.

A movie that I'm involved with and have a lot of love for, which is On The Road, does use a lot of handheld. It can be done beautifully. I'm proud of that. It's a very beautiful movie.

Sometimes in writing you have difficult periods and then other times it just flows.

Relationship movies are often made for a female audience.

Humor is reason gone mad.

Just as love makes you blind so does wealth, and of the two blindnesses wealth is the worse because of the incalculable harm it is able to do to people other than yourself.

America is fascinated by crime.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

On learning: if you really want alignment, go to a chiropractor.

One thing you should know about me is I never play to lose, Always aim high and rarely obey the rules.

Denial can be a pathology or a survival mechanism - and sometimes it's both.

When a song comes from a real story and from a real place I think it comes across to people. That's important.

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

In essence I'm really a very traditional writer. I subscribe to the notion that, ultimately, characters do drive everything else.