The Mediterranean is in my DNA. I'm fine inland for about a week, but then I yearn for a limitless view of the sea, for the colours and smells of the Italian and French Riviera.
The relentless pursuit of being different is very French.
I have a very nice garden and extraordinary markets, where there are products from the earth and the sea, in the French Basque country.
I think the French and the Japanese are both obsessed by seasons, small producers, freshness.
In each restaurant, I develop a different culinary sensibility. In Paris, I'm more classic, because that's what customers like. In Monaco, it's classic Mediterranean haute cuisine. In London, it's a contemporary French restaurant that I've developed with a U.K. influence and my French know-how.
Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.
I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.
I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English.
I did a little film called 'Nina,' a small role. I played a French girl who was a nurse to Nina Simone. Zoe Saldana plays Nina.
In the 1930s, there were so many different conflicts going on between the British, the French, the Russians, the Germans, the Spaniards, the Romanians and so on.
