I don't know if there's a method that I'd like to see younger people bring back, I just want to see everyone of every age in the kitchen.

Cooking and baking are pleasures and I want everyone to be able to experience and share them.

Real French people don't bake! At least they don't bake anything complicated, finicky, tricky or unreliable.

Sometimes I think there are devils at work in the kitchen - recipes that are always perfect sometimes come out less than perfect and I can't figure out why.

The food world is more crowded these days, but I think that there are more opportunities.

Do the work you are most proud of

I often say that eggs and sugar should be beaten until they thicken and pale and sometimes, when there are lots of yolks, that's lemon colored.

When I'm developing a recipe with brown butter - I know how much butter I want in the end and I so I start with more butter than I'll need.

Anything you make in a 'normal' sized loaf pan can be made in the longer pan - you just have to increase the recipe proportionately.

You can use melted butter instead of oil, but your cake may be a little denser.

Fight for what you want out of this one life.

Why be greedy when you can have it all.

Were Gods love is present there is always hope.

Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms.

The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.

I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.

Refrain from drink which is the source of all evil-and the ruin of half the workmen in this Country.

Talk to people no one else is talking to.

The shape I'm in, I could donate my body to science fiction.

I totally believe in magic. Because my life, I think, has been very magic, and magical things have come true for me time after time after time.