The most adventurous thing I've done is learn how to fly a helicopter in the Philippines. One night we landed on a beach and slept on it.

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.

If you were an animal, what kind would it be?""A dog. I'd take people in my teeth like rats and shake some sense into them.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology.

Outstanding leaders have a sense of mission, a belief in themselves and the value of their work.

It’s amazing how life will organize around the standards you set for yourself.

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.

Christians are a polyphonic people.

I really do believe in the influence of your surroundings.

The value of a good education has never left me.

Sitting like a mountain let your mind rise and fly and soar.