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Well, I look at it like this: When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. If the soup tastes good, everything's cool, and you don't necessarily want to know what's in it. The same thing holds true with movies.

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

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

Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed... I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself.

My favorite movie is 'Die Hard.' It doesn't have pinatas and mariachis. It's just a good movie.

Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais, who used food wonderfully as a metaphor for sensuality.

Food was supposed to be a slightly bigger part of 'Heartburn,' and it actually didn't turn out to be because of me. I just didn't find a way to make it a bigger part of the movie as I should have, and we cut several scenes in which food was a major character.

I saw 'Food, Inc.' last night - it was like a horror movie. I'm definitely thinking about my food supply now and how I want to grow my own.

I love film. After a yummy meal for the whole family and some truly great friends, we often go out to see something beautiful and unique.