De Palma in Venice: It Takes Humor to Make it in Films

Veteran American director Brian De Palma said on Wednesday at the Venice Film Festival that his advice to young filmmakers is they must never give up, but they also need luck and a sense of humor in order to succeed. Seventy-five-year-old De Palma was being honored for a career spanning half a century, which has included "Scarface" with Al Pacino (1983), the Chicago gangster film "The Untouchables" (1987) and the launch of the Tom Cruise "Mission: Impossible"...

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