Food brings people together on many different levels. It's nourishment of the soul and body; it's truly love.

Pasta doesn't make you fat. How much pasta you eat makes you fat.

I spent time at my grandfather Dino's gourmet store where he brought in chefs from Naples to cook. I thought of them as rock stars.

The holidays stress people out so much. I suggest you keep it simple and try to have as much fun as you can.

I'm into very colorful food. Obviously lots of flavor, but I think we eat with our eyes first, so it has to look great. The presentation has to be great.

When I was a kid, for my birthday every year, my mother made me pasta bechamel, which is rigatoni with a white cream sauce.

My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food.

I grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy.

Opportunities present themselves and you have to enjoy the ride. All of us get so worried about the next step that we don't enjoy the moment we're in right now.

You just need a little perspective. Warmed chocolate can give you that.

It's more intimate. Food can connect people in a forever sort of way.

You have to stop and freeze the moment, " he told me I had told her. "You have to make yourself remember by repeating it in your head over and over. You have to write to preserve your sanity.

Don't worry, my little lump of rock. Everybody gets a chance to choose. Or else where would irony come from?

If you're into the brand and the heritage of the brand, you can always remember where you got your first Fred Perry Shirt, and for me I was nine years old

... I never was one to get upset about a few scratches on a motor vehicle, it is meant to be used, not saved.

Sacrifice - the future has it´s price, and today is only yesterday's tomorrow.

People essentially like local news better than network news.

Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to direct me.

My biggest pet peeve is inconsiderate people.

It's not like I idolize this one guy Machiavelli. I idolize that type of thinking where you do whatever's gonna make you achieve your goal.

Films are always different from books.