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
- I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?
- Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards, but that's not the case. Sure, my parents were generous I got a nice car at 16, but at 18 I was cut off. I've worked really hard. I opened the store myself.
- Expose yourself to your deepest fear after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
- Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
- I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you. I'm still married, still working, still happy.
- Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?
- Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
- He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
- Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.