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.

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.

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.

As a director myself, you want to have colleagues and collaborators that respect your authority as the director. I'm very comfortable with that, and I've done a lot of work in second unit.

When we are quiet and still we contract and settle.

It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself

I'm the king of the 20th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family.

Spiritual success depends on your Conductivity. No Spiritual Conductivity, no progress!

Comedians kind of write what comes to them. You can give yourself little assignments, but it's what inspires you.

Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the Triune God.

You can turn a giant into a mouse just by getting him fatigued. That was my whole game plan.

Ryan Baker sustained a penalty of play, and we withheld him from play today based on the rules violation.

Some people put more into their cars than they put into their relationships.

But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us.