The things you get fired for when you’re young are the same things that you get lifetime achievement awards for when you’re old.

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.

What do the vitarags [the enlightended one] say? If you want to be beaten up, then beat others. If you want to be slandered, then slander someone.

Religion [dharma] originates where there is doer-ship [to do], Moksha [ultimate liberation] originates where there is understanding (to understand).

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand - that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.

The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.

Roger, Tranquility. Be advised there are lots of smiling faces in this room and all over the world. Over.

It's refreshing to see a woman who can artfully weave her individuality into an otherwise safe ensemble.

I always loved science. And in fact, I got a science award in high school. I mean, I loved science, but I think I loved literature more.

Only if I am going to die, I should prefer to die as I have lived, drunkenly.

I can change. I can live out of my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past