Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects of food.

Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster.

Food is about being happy - at a table, thats probably where we spend most of our happiest hours.

I think my virtue was I never thought "This is impossible.

If you think well, you cook well.

I'm not a materialist, I don't care for things. I don't like cars, I hate things that can be exploited. I live a simple life. The only luxuries I have in my life are travel and food.

Could you imagine people eating a painting - if they could introduce a painting into their bodies? It's probably the artist's dream, and we have the opportunity to do so.

I use the kitchen as a pathway to achieve this happiness.

You need an entire life just to know about tomatoes.

Our kitchen is a kitchen that makes food designed to be tasted with the five senses and it requires concentration to appreciate all that we want to express.

You can't please everyone, especially if you're doing very radical things at the vanguard of cooking. That's life; it's a polemic I've lived with since I started cooking.

They were happy to help someone, to succeed at something, even if they weren't to benefit.

You have unlimited resources, begin your work!

I don't want to call anyone an outright winner without having seen everything.

Anything can be said and, in consequence, written about anything.

People watch me when I get into these characters that I have in my head, so perhaps I should try acting. So I did.

A startup can focus on only one metric. So you have to decide what that is and ignore everything else.

The real tough thing is working with actors. I'm a designer and used to working with artists, so there is some familiarity with the personalities that come up, but actors are their own animal.

we have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally

How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms!

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.