Amusement, enlightenment, and delight for it's own sake. Riding my motorcycle, driving race cars, SCUBA diving, yoga, the beach (I love being in the ocean - I like when you dry off and there's that little layer of salt left on your body), history, traveling, languages (I'm fluent in French & Italian), caviar, champagne (some save champagne for a special occasion, I say have champagne and make the occasion special! - Or win a race, now THAT'S special...), watches (yet I'm always late), absinthe, wine tasting, that little piece of milk chocolate when you have a sweet tooth, espresso w/ steamed half & half (so rich!), hanging out in cafes, hanging out in bookstores, oh hell, just hanging out, film, making films, reading, writing, dreaming, taking pleasure in beauty, luscious lips, kissing those lips.....On the set of my film...It's good to be the King...Pompeii, Italy - July '04Machu Picchu, Peru - Dec. '04White Peacocks at the Palazzo BorromeoThe Little Green Fairy......I did say champagne, didn't I?My current stable. 21st Century versions of 20th Century icons: Vespa, Moto Guzzi & Mini Cooper.And more champagne...Racing is all about focus.....Yeah, I'd say winning is an interest...
Radiohead, Coldplay, Moby, Pink Floyd, Sigur Ros, Massive Attack, The Dandy Warhols, Jeff Buckley, Delerium, Oslo, Postal Service, Muse, the Cafè del Mar CDs, Faithless, U2, Peter Gabriel, Thin Lizzy, Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin, Classical (especially Bach & Beethoven) and a whole lot more.....
Lawrence of Arabia, South Park, About a Boy, Seven, The Matrix, The Red Violin, Gladiator, Amelie, The Godfather I & II, 12 Monkeys, The Right Stuff, Chariots of Fire, The Usual Suspects, Planet of the Apes (the original), Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, 28 Days Later, Blade Runner, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Hero - awesome! Finding Neverland, Kingdom of Heaven.This pic is me doing a fire stunt on a movie that most definitely did NOT make the list!
Eh... TV sucks. I just like MSNBC, Discovery, History Channel, SPEED and BBC America.
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Our Man in Havana (and everything else by Graham Greene), The Inferno, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Bel Ami, The Stranger, Against the Grain, 1984, The Alchemist, The Tale of Genji
Gilles Villeneuve, killed the day before I had my first winMy grandfather, Rino Motto, from whom I got my adventurous spiritThis kid with me is fast as hell and he's only 16 years old!!!! His parents are my heroes for giving him the support in his racing that my family never gave me.My hometown, for surviving it all