The internet in hotels should be free - and I really resent it when they charge you five dollars for a bottle of water beside your bed.

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 an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything; I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper.

Really good ideas are always good beyond what you anticipated originally.

When the monster has a dimension that allows you to humanize it, that's the route I usually want to go.

When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.

You can't have a country or a city or a state that's worth a damn unluss you govern within yourself in your day-to-day life.

Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.

There is timing in everything. Timing in strategy cannot be mastered without a great deal of practice.

The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.

What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?

Your tears were collected by the angels and were placed in a golden chalice, and you will find them when you present yourself before God.