Please, if you're making a movie, start out with a good script, at least! Please!

I like playing roulette, I like dice. I grew up with gamblers.

The saddest thing in life is wasted talent, and the choices you make will shape your life forever.

Italian-Americans are not the Mafia.

My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god.

My father always said, 'The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.'

When you feel good about the work you're doing, that's what's important, not the budget or anything like that. If you're happy about the actors you're working with, that's what's important.

I've always been successful. Now I'm famous and successful.

Mental violence is as bad as physical violence. You don't see that very often in movies, so it was a good subject to tackle.

Yeah, I like to gamble.

I thought that if no one was going to give me a great part - and it was very difficult to break into film, obviously - then I'd write one myself.

Meditation works in many layers. It works in our genes, in our DNA

However well you know the French language you've learnt it the wrong way, not as a native speaker would. That's my problem as well.

If you're going to perform inception, you need imagination. You need the simplest version of the idea-the one that will grow naturally in the subject's mind. Subtle art.

When I was a kid I was really into horror films. I watched every single horror film that came out in the 80s.

Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.

Sometimes, the hardest habit to break is the habit of doing nothing beyond the necessary.

Why did you destroy Manny's office, then?" "I--can't breathe--" "That is the point of choking you," I pointed out. "Haste, please, if you want to live." -Cassiel

I'm trying to find out NOT how Nature could be, but how Nature IS.

Half-truths are the devil's IOUs.

The peace of the world concerns only body and time but the peace, the joy, that Christ gives enriches the soul for eternity