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Some of the movies I did - well, you have to feed your family.

Food is so important - it sustains us, it provides a social focal point, and it is fun. I cannot unravel the difference between love in my family and the preparation of food because they are so closely woven.

I realized that food was actually a metaphor for bringing us all together. It's about us communicating and being like family.

Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.

Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.

Film for me became how I related to everything else.

I would say that the things that have really left a mark on me have more to do with my family and my children's lives rather than a film role.

I think that my films are basically family stories, beyond the fact that they are global and have political and social commentary.

Family tends to be one of the recurring themes in my fiction.

My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.