Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's.

It's pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.

Hurt him. Hurt him and save him

I mean, '8 ½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.

Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.