"I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians."
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"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."
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"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?"
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"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."
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"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."
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"Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos."
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"There's nothing creative about living within your means."
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"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."
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"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."
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"If the movie works, nobody notices the mistakes... If the movie doesn't work, the only thing people notice are mistakes."
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"I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets."
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"Everyone knows the phenomenon of trying to hold your breath underwater - how at first it's alright and you can handle it, and then as it gets closer and closer to the time when you must breathe, how urgent the need becomes, the lust and the hunger to breathe. And then the panic sets in when you begin to think that you won't be able to breathe - and finally, when you take in air and the anxiety subsides...that's what it's like to be a vampire and need blood."
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"You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost."
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"When you make a film it is like asking yourself a question. When it is finished, you know the answer. Ultimately with all of cinema, we are just trying to learn about ourselves. I have always used the opportunity to make a film to learn more about myself, which I am still doing."
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"Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most."
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"My talent is that I just try and try and try and try again and little by little it comes to something."
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"It was the man's dream, and his inspiring attempt to make them come true that remain important."
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"I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing."
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"Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film."
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"One thing that I'm sure of is the real pleasure of life - it's not being known, it's not having your own jet plane, it's not having a mansion the pleasure is to learn something"
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