One thing that I'm sure of is the real pleasure of life - it's not being known, it's not having your own jet plane, it's not having a mansion the pleasure is to learn something

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.

I'm always playing along that line: adding something more, yet keeping it sort of chaos.

Whatever one intends, the work takes on a life of its own.

You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.

Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.

We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.

Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.

To all the girls that think you’re fat because you’re not a size zero, you’re the beautiful one, its society who’s ugly.

In the end, rational policy is always good.

I've been a financial journalist for 30 years.

a wild dedication of yourselves To undiscovered waters, undreamed shores.