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. knuckle, really, otherwise, instincts
I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life! overly, ambitious, think, upward
I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians. movies, earliest, associated, always
The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy. together, cinema, combination, people
Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful. country, worked, very, exciting
Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most. work, going, usually, idea
If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business. hotel, time, business, find
Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand. becomes, sequels, filmmakers, cinema
The most adventurous thing I've done is learn how to fly a helicopter in the Philippines. One night we landed on a beach and slept on it. adventurous, beach, slept, done
Sound is your friend because sound is much cheaper than picture, but it has equal effect on the audience - in some ways, perhaps more effect because it does it in a very indirect way. audience, very, much, picture
