I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.
'Social Network' is a good story with human experience connective tissue that makes it ageless.
It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.
Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.
I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.
I don't consider myself a food person. I'm no Bobby Flay. I'm no Emeril or Paula Deen, and I'm certainly not Rachael Ray.
When I go to a restaurant, I eat three-quarters of the food in front of me. That cuts my calorie intake by 25 percent.
Ultimately, I want to prepare food that will be recognized equally in Tokyo, London, and Paris. I am after that universality, that transcendence.
I'd rather have Daniel Boulud have 20 restaurants than some restauranteur. It's going to make the food in our country better.
I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.
American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.
I am surrounded by my family, my beloved grandchildren, and my pack of dogs.
My family immigrated when I was 3, and our predecessors inhabited the Korean Peninsula for as long as can be recalled.
I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family stories.
Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.
You don't have to be a Christian to work at Chick-fil-A, but we ask you to base your business on biblical principles because they work.
Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.
I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.
First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
