In a professional kitchen, the idea is to have your cooks not moving much while theyre cooking. You want them to stay in the same spot.

The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.

America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.

For me, food is about memories, feelings, emotions, and so is Le Bernardin, and that's why it's not just a restaurant.

My New Year's resolution is to cut my diet sodas down to two cans a day!

I love garlic, and I use it often.

I don't like it when I go to a restaurant and I'm lectured from the menu.

If I go to a nightclub, even if the music is good, if the sound system is not, I don't stay.

Obviously California is fantastic in terms of produce, vegetables.

Well, cooking starts with shopping. If the ingredients are not good, you don't do it. Just change your mind and do something else.

The fish is the star of the plate.

If love was a sin, God Himself would be in the hottest part of Hell.

Your ego is laughing at you behind your back.

Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Sleep is no servant of the will; it has caprices of its own; when courted most, it lingers still; when most pursued, 'tis swiftly gone.

Make sure your heart is singing right until the day it stops.

Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.

My roles don't centre around drugs at all! Shadiness is different - it's drama. We're making movies! You've gotta have conflict.

When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.