When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have.

Films and hotels have many aspects that are the same. For example, there is always a big vision, an idea.

You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn’t have a lot of friends. Theater really represented that kind of camaraderie.

I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.

The very earliest people who made film were magicians.