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

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.

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.

I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.

Quality sells itself. No hype needed.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture.

But we have nothing of the Spirit except through regeneration. Everything, therefore, which we have from nature is flesh.

If our opinions rest upon solid ground, those who attack them do not make us angry, but themselves ridiculous.

If you don't like your wrinkles and you think Botox or surgery is going to fix it, do it and shut up. But don't keep talking about it.

Be short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longing than loathing.

I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

I was referencing the Bible: "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" But I'm not religious. I just thought it was a good title.

Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.