Wine is so much more than a beverage. It's a romance, a story, a drama-all of those things that are basically putting on a show.

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.

Earnestness and sincereness are synonymous.

Sometimes I've had to put myself on a diet.

You know... when you are sad you love the sunsets.

I do everything I can for wild animals because they have such a bloody awful time.

I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.

Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.

You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.

Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.

Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.

It's only ... when we're stripped of purpose that we know who we are.