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The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.

It's always nice to do a family movie, because I do a lot of R-rated stuff.

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

I always loved movies and the cinema; we always used to go to see films as a family.

I've always wanted to do a family movie.

Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.

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

All my cousins are almost old enough to start seeing my movies. I'm going to have some 'splainin' to do.

I did important films when I was very young.

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