George Lucas doesn't have the most physical stamina. He was so unhappy making Star Wars that he just vowed he'd never do it again.

I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.

I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.

A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.

We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food.

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.

Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not like commercial movies, which I enjoy myself, but I wanted to be the kind of filmmaker who wrote original work, sort of like a novelist would who deals with who we are and our times or our relationships.