The summer before I went to culinary school, my family wanted me to take a job on a movie to make sure that I was making the right decision. I think they hoped I would change my mind about culinary school. – Giada De Laurentiis

I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini. – Francis Ford Coppola

There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle. – Gus Van Sant