I'd rather go with someone who wasn't a great speaker, but was a great chef, rather than someone who was a great performer, but maybe not a great cook.

That's the beautiful thing about food, it breaks down the barriers.

Just be true to yourself and don't do anything that doesn't feel right.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do in television is stick to your guns. If you're making a show, you make the show.

I remember Tetro was a big deal to me at that time. It was going from zero to one: Never having been in a movie, a person who had no relationship to any of that, and that was my first movie.

Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels.

The eye and fantasy feel more attracted by nebulous distance than by that which is close and distinct in front of us.

The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.

I've done the performing monkey stuff and massive breakdowns, it's just they weren't documented.

One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is...the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own.

Time spent in nature is the most cost-effective and powerful way to counteract the burnout and sort of depression that we feel when we sit in front of a computer all day.

A good rule for mental conduct—think whatever it makes you truly happy to think.