Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

You never know how much time you have left.

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.

When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.

If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?

My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.

Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.