If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business.

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.

To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means.

I am bothered by poems I don't understand.

Life has a plan for each of us

Do you know your Bible?''Uh, not very well.''It merits study, it contains very practical advice for most emergencies.

Bed is the poor man's opera.

I had a lot of fun driving race cars, but it wasn't my No. 1 priority.

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.

Texas is dicktown. No basement in the alamo. I didnt capitalize that on purpose.

In the locker rooms, I'm always suggesting, "You need Berlei." Because it's the best brand for women and for me.

The human heart is always drawn by love.