“If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?” — Martin Scorsese Quote

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

I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.

I'm an older generation.

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.

The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.

Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.

Now, occasionally I will still have that quarter pounder because I love fast food, but you have to keep it to a minimum.

With the exception of octopus, I don't think I've met any food that I didn't like. And by the way, sometimes I do like octopus. I'm just not crazy about it by itself. I love sea urchin. I love uni. If I'm going to die of anything, it's going to be gluttony.

For dinner, I like to have a protein and veggies again. But because of my ulcerative colitis, really healthy foods are hard on my stomach. Sugars aren't good, and I have to be careful with vegetables. So it can be tough to find food that feels good.