Collaboration is like the sex of creativity.

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

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.

Today's winemakers still worry about quality.

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!

I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast

In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales.