I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!
Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.
I try to just make what I want to make or what I would want to see. I try not to think about the audience too much.
My parents were always encouraging of us being creative however we wanted to be. People say, "You didn't get pressured into having to be a director?" But it's hard to be around my dad and not be curious about filmmaking, because he thinks it's the ultimate medium.
When you're making a film you're thinking about how to tell the story visually.
I try to always be open to what the actors want to try. I don't storyboard and try to be intuitive and open on the day of filming.
I always remember my dad saying, "No one makes a remake unless they are trying to make money; there is no reason for it. " It was not an honorable thing to do.
Could it be that simple? Tell one story to one generation and repeat it until it was accepted as fact?
The high road's the only road I know. Let's keep on that way.
Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual. . . may well be the chess book of the year. . . [It] comes close to an ultimate one-volume manual on the endgame.
Before a fight I'm always afraid. . . before I used to have a hard time just dealing with it because I would try to run away from it, but then as I competed more I understood the fact that this is how I'm supposed to feel.