My career path... Film director !

My spirituality... is one part art, one part sex, one part love, and one part universal consciousness, with a liberal sprinkling of Burning Man. !

My relationship status... Divorced !

My relationship saga... is a long and winding road, filled with sharp turns, sudden drop-offs, beautiful vistas, and fiery car wrecks. !

My political leanings... slightly left !

My political views... are informed by spending a lot of time in other countries, where I learned that, actually, Americans aren't any more special than anybody else. !

A great song... Hysteria by Muse !

A great movie... Il Conformiste by Bernardo Bertolucci !

A great book... The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence !

A great company... Apple; Pixar !

An awful company... anybody involved in re-packaging subprime mortgage loans into collaterallized debt obligations !

Delicious food... sushi !

Terrible food... McDonald's !

Proudest thing I ever did... premiere my first film at the Sundance Film Festival !

What drives me crazy... Home re-modeling contractors. Sean Hannity. People who talk during movies. !

What makes me glad to be alive... the feeling of walking out onto the empty desert at Burning Man, early in the morning, and seeing the curvature of the Earth. !

I believe this... It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. !

My ethnicity as others define it... Caucasian, European, European-American !

My ethnicity as I define it... Italian and Jewish !

Gender... Male !