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

I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.

I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a little bummed out when there is too much fancy stuff going on and it doesn't resemble the original dish at all.

It's not difficult for me to stay healthy. I like healthy food.

My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.

I don't think there's going to be a day when I don't think about food or my body, but I'm living with it, and I wish I could tell young girls to find their safe place and stay with it.

The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.

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

We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.

If I'm a lush at anything, it's food and drink. I'm not materialistic in any way, but I value food.