“I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.”
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When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget.
Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful.
Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He's very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best, and he's been very successful.
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.
