I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.

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.

I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo.

You can no more look destiny in the face than you can look at the sun, and yet destiny is grey

Beware all enterprises that require new clothes.

I don't like myself you know. I love myself. I'm devoted to myself till my dying day. But I don't like myself.

The Loch Ness monster doesn't exist either. Loch Ness is just not big enough to hide a thirty foot amphibian or reptile for hundreds of years.

There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.

Within that frame he went a long way and burned a deep scar.

The city has always been an embodiment of hope and a source of feeling guilt; a dream pursued, and found vain, wanting, and destructive.

I find the mantle of, she works hard for the money, or, she's overcome so many obstacles a bit overused.

Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe; a moment that never was before and never will be again.