People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.

From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.

All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.