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

Cinema without risk is like having no sex and expecting to have a baby.

I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.

I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.

The whole reason one wants to do lower budget films is because the lower the budget, the bigger the ideas, the bigger the themes, the more interesting the art.

It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.

Time is the lens through which dreams are captured.