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.
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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.
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Alton Brown Quotes
- I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.
- Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.
- I think a lot of food shows, especially when we started 'Good Eats' back in the late '90s, they were still really about food. 'Good Eats' isn't about food, it's about entertainment. If, however, we can virally infect you with knowledge or interest, then all the better.
- I say grace. I'm a big believer in grace. I happen to believe in a God that made all the food and so I'm pretty grateful for that and I thank him for that. But I'm also thankful for the people that put the food on the table.
- Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.
- I love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor.
- The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.
- Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.
- The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.
- I kept thinking, 'Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time... a show that got down to the 'why things happen.' Plus, I hated my job - I didn't think it was very worthwhile.
Best Quotes
- In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
- The first step to Success is to overcome fear.
- I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.
- I love my mom. My mom loves me. We don't have an easy relationship. I don't think we ever will, but I'd rather have a complicated, misunderstood relationship than have no relationship at all.
- If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.
- When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.
- God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
- I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.
- That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
- Many corporate leaders and employees have the right intentions, but it can be overwhelming when you consider how everything is affected from leadership styles, to organizational structure, to employee engagement, to customer service an marketplace.