Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.

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.

Water has no hands, but carries great ships.Air has no shoulders, but carries large planes.The Sun has no eyes, but finds its way around the universe.

Love is a beautiful in all it's forms.Love is the light that ignites by soul.

Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion.

Somehow love gives even to a dull man the knowledge of his lover's heart.

I don't like mushiness. I'm a very emotional person but I hate sentimentality. I don't like great demonstrations of emotion. But as I'm getting older, I'm getting much more open about all that.

The Devil made me do it the first time - the second time I done it on my own

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.

Ukraine is going through a difficult time. There is nothing extraordinary of the resignation of the Ukrainian government ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections

For me, my dad is the best hero in the universe.