Some people do get nervous about cooking for me, others just get extremely irritated by my interfering.

I refuse to eat a fried egg if the white is still runny or transparent. I really can't be doing it. I always have to flip it over.

Taxi drivers are the ones who pay me the most attention. They seem to be into River Cottage and have a dream of moving to the country, so I have chats with them.

I'm a generous host, but I'm a difficult and interfering guest. When I go around to other people's houses and they're cooking, I'm always telling them what to do.

Toate familiile fericite se aseamănă între ele. Fiecare familie nefericită este nefericită în felul ei.

There's a line in the picture where he (Johnny - The Wild One) snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.

I live in my own place - have never copied anyone even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh.

I think of the thrill of an intelligent woman talking just to me.

The disciplined are free.

One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore.

Listen, Frank Zhang has moves. He's probably gonna turn into a kangaroo and do some marsupial jujitsu on their ugly faces.

Over-length is one of the things that most often results in the destruction of the movie in the cutting room.

I'm not going to call a dog "Dog." I suppose if she were a baby you'd cal her "Person."

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!