The time a movie is made is unique, not only from the talent that is available but if the public was ready for 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.

True love is like little roses, sweet, fragrant in small doses.

New York is traditional New York, you know what I'm saying? It's the stomping ground of the hustlers and go-getters

The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.

Aim for a star, and keep your sights high! With a heart full of faith within, your feet on the ground and your eyes in the sky.

If you have a complete set of salad bowls and they all say Kool Whip on the side, you might be a redneck.

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.

It's the company itself, but most of these mutual fund companies, the guy who runs the company is just a fact totem and the guy who runs the money is the power. But we really don't know who they are.

I am learning to see loneliness as a seed that, when planted deep enough, can grow into writing that goes back out into the world.

Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.