I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast

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.

I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food

Only the Truth of God can redeem humankind.

There is no short cut to success, but there are guidelines to success!

The reason for our limitation is only inside us.

I am, as a European, absolutely shocked by European people. I am also shocked by European nationalist people. They have allowed themselves to be so emasculated so silently.

If we're going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

I want to be the strongest player in the world and score a lot of goals. To do that, I have to improve in every area.

I want to be a rebellious McDonald's owner. Cheeseburgers... NOPE... we got spaghetti!

In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them.

We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of the seasons, has, for millennia, held the promise of cheating mortality.