“The part that I know I enjoy most is the restaurants. You can't do eve...” — Michael Mina Quote

“The part that I know I enjoy most is the restaurants. You can't do everything, you know? For me, the priority has been being deeply involved in my restaurants and figuring out different ways to make them run better.”

“When designing a kitchen, always keep in mind the social aspect.”

“I loved the cooking; that was what I was passionate about, but getting to watch the guests eat - because you could see everything from the kitchen - just watching people eat and looking at the plates when they came back, just understanding, this is such an amazing job.”

“I always needed money when I was younger. I had different ways of getting it. A lot of the ways I don't like to talk about.”

“I'm very interested in structure, how multiple stories are assembled in different ways; that is what memory does as well.”

“Every generation has a different ways of telling a story. We had a great run in the early '90s, into the mid-'90s, and we became a little more executive-driven as we got into the 2000s.”