Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work.

If I have to be remembered for something, I want it remembered that I really liked children and was a good camp counselor.

I have much to learn from my daughter Sofia. Her minimalism exposes my limitations: I'm too instinctive and operatic, I put too much heart into my work, I get lost sometimes in bizarre things - it's my Italian heritage.

There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children.

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

Although knowledge of structure is helpful, real creativity comes from leaps of faith in which you jump to something illogical. But those leaps form the memorable moments in movies and plays.

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.