“I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.”

— David Lynch

“The plot thickens, as they say. Why, by the way? Is it a soup metaphor?”

—  M. Gustave (Ralph Fiennes)

“Making a film is like cooking a pot au feu. You choose the best carrots, the best potatoes the best meat, et cetera, and you throw all that together — but if there’s no soul, so to speak, it won’t yield much.”

— Philippe Claudel

“I guess I’m a sloppy cook because I do it out of enthusiasm, essentially. I don’t measure everything but I have a good feel for food. Same with movies. The bottom line is I’m emotionally sloppy.”

— Francis Ford Coppola

“Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.”

—  Woody Allen

“All art is autobiographical. […] Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.”

— Federico Fellini

“Some films are slices of life. Mine are slices of cake.”

— Alfred Hitchcock