I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

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.

If you are in a bad mood go for a walk.If you are still in a bad mood go for another walk.

The best way to learn is to do

Purpose of Life: Understand Who You AreBelieve In Yourself.

It is well if you go in for revenge to make it as complete as possible.("The Vengeance Of The Dead")

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

I will turn directly to the Asylum Bill later.

We have the deepest and most liquid capital markets in the world.

Polls are the corporate media's standardized tests to determine how well we have learned what it has taught us.

I'm a massive sucker for music documentaries.

A fool is wiser in his own house than a sage is in another man's house.