“The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life’s negative moments.”

A man obsessed: obsessed with perfection, sharing, aesthetics, taste, savoir-faire, and much more.

We have many, many words, but not that one. To me, healthy means paying close attention to feeding people.

Everyone talks about Spanish influences, but where is it?…Tell me 10 great Spanish restaurants in London….You can’t give me the addresses. Nor in Paris.

It is a great intellectual challenge and a gorgeous sensual experience.

The image foreigners have of French cuisine is fattening and very fancy food. But it’s not true – French food isn’t just rich. The word “healthy” doesn’t exist in French.

The relentless pursuit of being different is very French.

Cuisine has become too complicated – this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce.

Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.

At my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard.

Everywhere in the world there are tensions – economic, political, religious. So we need chocolate.

Techniques are not the most difficult to teach. The attitudes chefs take are much more important.

I have a very modern way of thinking; the chef is there to lead the team and not just to sit behind the piano.

The planets resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably.

It should be slow-cooked and seasonal. That’s my vision.

You can mix two styles and get fusion; any more and you just get confusion.

Nowadays, food needs to be healthy, local, sustainable and not filled with too much fat, salt or sugar.

The grass is not always greener on the other side. You learn to appreciate these people.

I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.

I learned how to pass when I was real young. That’s one thing I always knew how to do was find the open man.

The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.

That’s one of the great things about being an actor. You get to learn all these things normal people don’t get to learn.

There’s a bunch of stuff I want to learn. Instead of waiting around on set all day, I’d rather be learning something cool.

Success is a learnable skill. You can learn to succeed at anything

Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.