I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school.

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.

Oh, now look what you've done. You've gone and pissed him off, " Breccan said as he stood behind two of the gypsies, one of his large hands clamped down on each of their shoulders.

It reminded me of how children always thought too big

And because she did not shove this down my throat, this dawned on me.

there is an imbalance of power. It is an imbalance that is easy to exploit, but it is not a wise course. Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side." - jace

Music excites me, inspires me, fuels me! I listen to music every single day.

The food in Yugoslavia is fine if you like pork tartare.

You cannot laugh and be unkind at the same time

No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.

Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.

Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, "Oh, for God's sake, shut up."