I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.

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.

The innovation classification is not just based on the required investments, or on the potential market, but on its evolution abilities.

Rage and grief are savage companions, but despair is the final undoing.

Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!

The self is a perpetually recreated neurobiological state.

Oh, what's this in my shoe? Red carpet insole. Everywhere I go, I'm walking on red carpet.

You can live a lifetime and at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

What I care the most is what I can do for people. I am not into it for recognition; if it comes it will happen out of my own effort.

My children's faces are private candles i sometimes worship at.

Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight. It is not willingness to know, but willingness to DO (obey) God's will that brings certainty.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.