The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

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.

To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead.

Remember, nobody changes the world on their own.

You will know your path by the fun of it.

Beating the drums for Hawaii is not hard to do... the place just grows on you.

In sales, it's not what you say; it's how they perceive what you say.

The only thing more enjoyable than chocolate, is bacon.

God does not delight in our sufferings. He brings only that which is necessary, but He does not shrink from that which will help us grow.

There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.

Once I was doing a sponsored walk. In the end I managed to raise so much money, I could afford a taxi.

People should be judged on the things they do, not how they look.