It takes no imagination to live within your means.

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.

Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.

So this gargoyle you're looking for, she could imagine herself saying. It wouldn't happen to have freaky magical powers, or the ability to devour human souls, would it?

I think people more often kill those they love than those they hate. Possible because only the people you love can really make life unendurable to you.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked.

You can't change who you are but you can surely make the best of it. And if you've got a thought act on it.

There are moments when you feel trapped, ill at ease. A year later the same feeling can turn out to be the theme of a book.

She wants to believe my excuses so bad. Every time I lie, she wants to believe me so much.

I'm very proud to be Canadian, but I would move to New York in a heartbeat.

A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.