I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't.

I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.

I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.

For me, it was kind of like going into the military or something. And anybody - any male - who has ever worked in a French kitchen knows what I am talking about when I say that.

Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.

Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.