Peter Brook Quotes

I sometimes compare making a film to cooking. Some dishes need to be stewed, while others need to be fried.

A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.

Cooking, I never do at home.

Cooking is about ingredients.

My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'

I'm a huge cook! I'm actually trying to write my first cookbook. I make an Indian-spice Bolognese and serve it over pasta. It's a combination of flavors that people aren't used to.

Making food is a wonderful way to spend a Friday night.

Filmmaking is like any kind of art form. You have to try to figure it out, and you're going to do that by trying.

I don't have any particular recipe. It is the reason why doing research is challenging as well as attractive. It is like being lost in a jungle and trying to use all the knowledge that you can gather to come up with some new tricks, and with some luck, you might find a way out.

Just like films, food is also a passion for me.

We need to get across the excitement and creativity of science. That it isn't just a list of facts that have already been discovered - but a process, a creative project, that you are generating ideas, testing them and looking for evidence.

Part of being the successful Pixar is that we will take risks on teams and ideas, and some of them won't work out. We only lose from this if we don't respond to the failures. If we respond, and we think it through and figure out how to move ahead, then we're learning from it. That's what Pixar is.

I'm a keen experimenter in the kitchen. With food, not with anything else!

When you're sitting in the basement trying to get on, you have no choice - you've gotta figure out how to make a song: 'I've gotta bang on these buttons until it sounds good.'

I've always wanted a straight-up cooking show since I was a child.

Salt is so, so, so important. If that's the one thing everyone remembers, every step of the way, whenever I cook, I try to incorporate salt.

All creation requires a scientific brain.

I think the philosophy will continue to be what it always was; which was, let's keep throwing a bunch of things at the wall, and see what sticks.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos; the materials must in the first place be afforded; it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself.

None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Prototyping is the conversation you have with your ideas.

You try a lot of things and you don't know what the hell you're doing. If you're actually inventing something you shouldn't know what you're doing.

Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.

Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off... All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention pure and simple.

All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents.