Dont imitate. Write what you know about, that has to be your goal.

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.

The unsuccessful person neither thinks nor acts

Create accomplishment from disappointments. Demoralization and disappointment are two of the surest going stones to achievement.

Yet who shall shut out Fate?

A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet.

In this business you break a leg and 150 other people are out of work while production is shut down. It's not like you were an accountant and could still work with your leg in a cast.

There is the artwork that you physically make but there's also the journey that happens on the inside.

Opinions are like phasers - everybody ought to have one.

For those who don't believe in themselves, hardwork is worthless." -Maito Gai (Naruto)

It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or anything like that.

Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.