I've been failing for like ten or eleven years. When it turns it'll turn. Right now I'm just tryin' to squeeze through a very tight financial period get the movie out and put my things in order.

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.

How can one absolve intelligent men for engaging in arrogant and demented folly?

Nothing is as peaceful as when Christmas is over, when one has been forgiven for everything and can be normal again.

I'm anti-tax, but I'm pro-carbon tax.

I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

If you are offered the opportunity to do something that you don’t know how to do – say yes, dive in and do it anyway.

Kermit was the Everyman, the original Tom Hanks, but I have a special place in my heart for Fozzie Bear. The classic borderline hacky entertainer.

Thanks to President Bush and Republican principles, businesses now have more confidence to hire workers.

As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist

Even the eternal skies weep, I thought; is there any shame then, that mortal man should spend himself in tears?