Work on nothing less than epic scale

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.

Keep trying hard because there is always a next time.

Not with a club, the Heart is brokenNor with a Stone –A Whip so small you could not see itI've known

All men are what they are by reasons of the laws they keep and the thoughts they think.

Beethoven can write music thank God - but he can do nothing else on earth.

I really love fantasy. I have to say it is my favourite genre to read and one of the genres I love the most to write.

Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences.

Computing should be taught as a rigorous - but fun - discipline covering topics like programming, database structures, and algorithms. That doesn't have to be boring.

As with marathon runs and lengths of toilet paper, there had to be standards to measure up to.

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.