"It's very important to be as transparent, as real as possible, as a person."

“The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors.”

“When I was a child I did engage in an arduous struggle to pass: learning English, getting rid of my accent, becoming conversant with the culture in all its large and small aspects.”

Source : "Permanent Outsider: Interview with Luc Sante". artafricamagazine.org. November 25, 2010.

“...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.”

“In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.”

“If a garden is well maintained and neatly landscaped, there must be a dedicated and efficient gardener.”

“Sometimes, love feels like a life or death situation. Losing true love is pretty much as bad as it gets, other than actually dying or losing good health. Most people know that. Most people can relate. It's like the end of the world.”

“The useful and the beautiful are never separated.”

“My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple. [Other] Japanese restaurants … mix in some other style of food and call it influence, right? I don't like that. … In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much. 'This fish from there,' 'This very expensive.' Same thing, start singing. And a lot have that fish case in front of them, cannot see what chef do. I'm not going to hide anything, right?”