I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.

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.

Would Crazy Horse have spent this much to remodel a kitchen?

To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value ... surely that is to lead the noble life.

When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.

You've got to give more than you take.

Perhaps that is the secret. It is not what we do, so much as why we do it.

Behold me, here I am; thy little handmaiden Acceptance-with-Joy and all that is in my heart is thine.

I took the No. 20 shirt because I'm here to win The 20th title with United.

It felt almost rude to ignore toe pretty white bed, but we just weren’t going to make it that far.

The law of gratitude is the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal and in opposite directions.

Once I built a railroad; now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?