I'm not on chef level, but I'd make a good line cook. That's not too shabby.
“I'm not on chef level, but I'd make a good line cook. That's not too shabby.”
— Jon Favreau · Chef
The World Motivation
I'm not on chef level, but I'd make a good line cook. That's not too shabby.
“I'm not on chef level, but I'd make a good line cook. That's not too shabby.”
— Jon Favreau · Chef
I'm not on chef level, but I'd make a good line cook. That's not too shabby.
The title's 'Cowboys & Aliens,' so you can get away with a lot if you chose to. You could make it the union of Cowboys Movies and Alien Movies and done whatever was convenient at any given moment. I think that's what most people would do, especially if you went broader and more comedic. Do whatever's the most fun in the moment.
When Iron Man's flying, we'd send real planes up to do the choreography so that we'd get the camerawork to really look like a cameraman was following from another plane. It gives it that 'Top Gun' look.
For a movie - any movie - to work, all the bread has to fall jelly side up; everything has to go right. You have to hit the zeitgeist.
It's a very naive idea to think that the chef is cooking everything, and, on top of it, is irreplaceable. That would mean that basically he is the only genius, and there are idiots all around him, which doesn't make sense.
The first thing I wanted to be growing up was a solicitor, because all the people around me needed solicitors! But I never really followed it up. Then I wanted to be a dessert chef because I liked the presentation.
Think of how much time it takes to prepare and eat a single meal. Then multiply that by seven. I wish I had my own chef!
I was hired as a sous-chef at a restaurant on the Upper East Side. The chef liked to drink - some mornings we would find him sleeping. Two weeks after its opening, I became the chef. I was 20 years old, and way over my head. I had to hire the cooks and do the menus.
I don't have a lot of patience for movies that aren't cleanly told.