Masaharu Morimoto Quotes

I love the idea of cooking, but I don't like using recipe books, so I'll put a mish-mash together, and it might be amazing by total accident, or it will be a catastrophe.

I never learned to cook, so I've got no rules. I'll put things together just because I think they belong together.

I would try doing a dish 30 different ways.

There aren't any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So you're just kind of brought up to feel-in any field, if you say you can do it, do it. There it is.

You just go for it and see what works. There are no rules.

I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.

Don't be afraid to adapt new ingredients into your own techniques, and traditional ingredients into new recipes.

What makes the food that we do at Alinea so interesting on the outside is that we really don't let ourselves say no to an idea.

We didn't say, 'Hey, we're gonna pick a bunch of cover songs,' or, 'We're gonna write an original song that has to sound like this, because we're a metal band, so we're gonna cover some metal songs.' We did the opposite. We just said, 'We're gonna have fun with these songs, and we're gonna try different things.'

My favorite way to cook is to look in my cabinets and see what I have. That's the most fun. 'I don't have tomatoes, but I have this chili-garlic sauce from the Asian grocery store. Let's throw that in there and see how it affects my beef barley soup!'

I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.

Art! What a concept! It saved my life! A place where you can do as you please!

We just write down a bunch of words, and pray to god they make sense. And if we don't, it doesn't matter, we're artists.

There are no rules. Let the picture lead you where it must go.

I don't have the same restrictions that other people do because I never painted myself into a corner. I've always done things that didn't necessarily fit the form. I've never felt limited in that respect in terms of songwriting.

After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.

As much as you know it, and you know the method, you can pretty much do what you want. No idea is going to be shot down. You just put it in the garbage later. You have to say the lines in many different ways. So they have a lot of material to work.

A lot of young actors have the idea that, "I've got to do this right. There's a right way to do this." But there's no right or wrong. There's only good and bad. And "bad" usually happens when you're trying too hard to do it right. There's a very broad spectrum of things that can inhibit you. The most important thing for actors - and not just actors, but everybody - is to feel loose enough to create what you want to create, and be free to try anything. To have choices.

In improvisation, there are no mistakes.

We are comfortable with formulas, but the best happens when the formula doesn't work.

I will just create, and if it works, it works, and if it doesn't, I'll create something else. I don't have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.

[In making music] it's nice to not have a goal, to not have a set format. It's very liberating to just get out of your comfort zone and be in a new space.

I love different themes, different venues, different movies. I love to jump about and tackle different subjects. I have no intellectual master plan.

I believe in looseness.