Vincent Schiavelli

I had a wonderful time playing Dr. Kaufman in Tomorrow Never Dies. It was a real Bond villain, over the top, almost laughable but dangerous.

My grandparents told endless stories about the town they were from. It became an almost mythic place.

I have a second bedroom I don't use. I'm going to start the Second Bedroom Film Festival. You're all invited.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.