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.

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

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 liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.

Is it murder to kill a man if the man never existed? To the man it is.

Focus on your music and not technology.

You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way.

There are no accidents so unlucky but the prudent may draw some advantage from them.

Oh, and by the way, I'm gonna beat you tonight, and I'm gonna enjoy every second of it. Au revoir!

I have very mixed feelings about the movie business, and about Los Angeles in general.

If I don't see a music video to it while writing it, I just scrap it immediately. It's very visual.

I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.

If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, "You Only Live Once."

I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone.