You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate 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.

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

Then it was silent. Heavy now, not the sleepy silence of before. The kind of silence that meant horrifying things.

Organized charity scrimped and iced In the name of the cautious statistical Christ.

Some people are widely read. I'm thinly read.

Winter always turns into Spring.

As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on earth.

Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.

I did a few more plays, and then I went to L.A., because I knew I could get a coaching job there.

I'm not going to be some kind of PC, tree-hugger.

It's so hard [to be parent] and no matter how old you get and how experienced you get you're always scared you're going to screw it up and you're going to make a mistake.