"There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out."

"It has to do - I think - with growing up in an apartment, with my aunt and my cousins right next door to me, with the door open, with neighbors walking in and out, with people yelling at each other all the time."

"Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious."

"Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate."

"Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage."

"My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love."

"Global trade has advantages. For starters, it allows those of us who live through winter to eat fresh produce year-round. And it provides economic benefits to farmers who grow that food."

"Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth give him too much, the same."