Movies are very expensive endeavors, and my first film was not particularly a money-maker. Quite the opposite.

The more you travel, the better you get at it.

In my films that I've directed, and my work in commercials and videos, I've rarely used handheld. It's just not something I'm drawn to, but I've seen it done very well.

When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

As a director myself, you really appreciate collaborating with people who are trying to help you find what you need and what you want.

I really value distinctive movies, movies that feel that they came from a person that was really something that they had conceived and they made and is a reflection of who they are.

I love 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' and I love 'Bugsy Malone.' I haven't seen 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks' in a long time, but I remember loving it as a kid.

A movie that I'm involved with and have a lot of love for, which is On The Road, does use a lot of handheld. It can be done beautifully. I'm proud of that. It's a very beautiful movie.

Sometimes in writing you have difficult periods and then other times it just flows.

Relationship movies are often made for a female audience.

You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.

Not to bash Los Angeles, but there is always a feeling in LA of where your stock is. Are you the top of the heap at the moment or do you have the blockbuster, did you get cast in that thing?

We all need a splash of bad taste. No taste is what I am against.

I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.

What's being pushed is to have Darwinism critiqued, to teach there's a controversy. Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

You don't just be a team. You become a team. Through tough games you find that you need each other

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

The true value of a leader is not measured by the work they do. A leader's true value is measured by the work they inspire others to do.

Strain your brain more than your eye.

It takes more than a great church to reach a city, it takes a great movement of churches.