When a movie is about to come out on its initial debut, there are a lot of people involved - the financiers, the studio and the producers and also, many times, the foreign distributors. So it is a time of tremendous pressure and uncertainty.

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 was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand better - time, consciousness and the dream-like basis of reality.

I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.

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 still think Ned Beatty should've played Don Corleone.

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