Today's winemakers still worry about quality.

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.

Bigheadedness is usually a symptom of small-mindedness.

Realize that your gift does not belong merely to you

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.

Everyone knew it was impossible, until a fool who didn't know came along and did it.

I think the hardest thing is to know what you want, ask for it, and then to stop talking.

Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity.

Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.

The quality of a society depends on its capacity to produce eminent personalities.

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

I think things are gonna change. I'm gonna take the age limit off of hip hop.