If I have to be remembered for something, I want it remembered that I really liked children and was a good camp counselor.

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.

It's in our genetics. It's why women are the master species. We give birth and we can walk in heels.

If you want to know the value of half a second, ask the person who came second in a sprint event at the Olympics.

I tell myself that this is okay, but I realize that I don’t have to. This is what I want. Him. Me. Closer

Can't be loyal to everyone, it's a conflict of interest.

I had crossed the line. I was free but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

The more I know, the less I understand

There are rules about perception, but not about photography.

When you fight corruption, it fights back.

History is a light that illuminates the past, and a key that unlocks the door to the future.