Alton Brown quotes and sayings
I think in the end there are only 20 or 30 tenets of basic cooking. It's going at perhaps the same issue from different angles, from different points of view, from different presentation styles, that really makes things sink in and become embedded.
Alton Brown quotes
- I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.
- Laughing brains are more absorbent.
- A lot of food shows need only to tempt. Some food shows only need to inspire, to empower. And there are a lot of shows that do that.
- Do not allow watching food to replace making food.
- I grill, therefore I am.
- The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with.
- My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.
- Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.
- I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.
- I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.