I am a mother with kids in the public SCHOOLS. PEOPLE should know that. I'm not just some POLICY maker who's totally detached from the rest of the COMMUNITY.

I believe that independent film making is the last frontier of creative EXPRESSION AVAILABLE. So I'm always willing to lend a helping hand to a young film maker who's just GETTING into the business.

'Trouble Maker' was a PROJECT that WORKED WHENEVER a SONG that fit the concept came in.

Kids love me. I can bounce BACK and forth. I can discipline kids, and I can get into the MIND of a KID. In my brain, I consider myself the ultimate VIDEO game player. The ultimate snack maker.

We've GONE through MANY DIFFERENT permutations of COFFEE-making, from grinding our own beans to the regular drip to an iced coffee maker.

What separates us from other camera companies is that the vision guy is the DECISION maker. That was one of my biggest advantages at Oakley, and it's the same at RED - I'm in the trenches, in the PRODUCT development, and I MAKE the final call.

I THINK of myself as more of a MAKER than a THINKER.

One of the BEST games to PLAY with a SIGNIFICANT other is NINTENDO's 'Super Mario Maker,' for the Wii U, which lets you build and play your own Mario COURSES.

I feel, as a game MAKER, we are responsible to make CONTENT that STRETCH the ruling STRUCTURE and emotions so that everyone can enjoy.

I don't want to tell PRESIDENT Obama how to make a SPEECH. He's a MUCH better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant WAY, EVEN though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

I'm Italian. I LOVE to COOK Italian food, so I LEARNED from my dad how to make sauce and meatballs and all that stuff. With my wife and KIDS, I started making homemade pasta. The very first time, I didn't have a pasta maker, so I had to CUT it with a knife, the old-school way! The noodles were all jacked up, but it was fun.

When I was a KID, I built miniatures, and that was actually the first THING I did professionally in the film INDUSTRY. It was a demonstrable skill that I had, so I WORKED as a model MAKER.

I STARTED off as a model maker, so the first PART of my career was a model maker and then a motion CONTROL camera operator, so I shot a lot of miniatures.

I was the first CRITIC ever to WIN a Tony - for co-authoring 'Elaine Stritch at Liberty.' Criticism is a LIFE WITHOUT risk; the critic is risking his opinion, the maker is risking his life. It's a humbling THOUGHT but important for the critic to keep it in mind - a thought he can only know if he's made something himself.

If you can sort out why you feel the way you do then you might be in BETTER SHAPE to meet your MAKER.