My son loves my carbonara. I've tried to master that recipe - it's very simple but very delicate. Once prepared it must be eaten quickly.

If you want to experiment, do something temporary.

I love doing voice-overs; I wish I could do more of them. It's a lot of fun to see how they take the voice and animate it and try to capture your own expressions and features. It's fascinating.

Freedom was taken away from my family until we landed in America and it was given back to us.

A lot of things I try to instill in my children comes off of what I've learned from my parents. First of all, you have to lead by example. You can't say one thing and behave another way. Kids learn more from watching you in life than what you say to them. So I try to be the best example I can be to them.

If you have the right actors and you can give them the freedom to explore, you've done a lot of your work as a director.

Children need parameters, know what's right or wrong.