Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.

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 don't believe that aliens exist, but I do believe that any new facts can strengthen foundation of my belief.

For several moments, Mary couldn't hear anything over the violent pounding of her pulse.

We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn't new to us. It is the very foundation of who we are.

It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.

My central focus is creating employment for the ordinary citizen.

Woman -a foe of friendship, an inescapable punishment, a necessary evil.

The heart breaks and breaks and lives by breaking it is necessary to go through dark and deeper dark and not to turn

Reaching into one's own pocket to assist his fellow man is noble and worthy of praise. Reaching into another person's pocket to assist one's fellow man is despicable and worthy of condemnation.

If we were to start today on an organized and well-supported space program I believe a practical passenger rocket can be built and tested within ten years.