So much of the art of film is to do less. To aspire to do less.

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.

Gratitude goes beyond saying ‘thank you’. Feelings complete the blessing

Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.

Never cut loose from your longings.

Can we follow the Savior far, who have no wound or scar?

Happiness is the ultimate goal. It is the goal of all other goals.

It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.

To play well, you need good players, but a good player almost always has the problem of a lack of efficiency. He always wants to do things prettier than strictly necessary.

I'd made enough made money by the time I was 12 to never work again, so it's not about a big pay check with me.

Do not make small goals because they do not have the magic to stir men's souls.

It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.