When you're shooting that fast end to end, you wake up in a hotel and you don't know where you are. You're dreaming of Singapore, you wake up in Hong Kong. Or you just lose track. It's one of the reasons I'm staying in hotels that I know I've stayed in before, and they don't look like other hotels.

Having been a chef for some many years, I understand what it's like to work really, really hard to get good at something, only to have someone piss all over it.

There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.

The way you make an omelet reveals your character.

I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

If you have a good experience in a restaurant, you tell 2 people. If you have a bad experience, you tell 10 people.

You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.