Claire Saffitz Quotes

I never learned to cook, so I've got no rules. I'll put things together just because I think they belong together.

A style is the consequence of recurrent habits, restraints, or rules invented or inherited, written or overheard, intuitive or preconceived.

I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'

I would try doing a dish 30 different ways.

Don't be afraid to adapt new ingredients into your own techniques, and traditional ingredients into new recipes.

A recipe is not an exact formula, but it does need a certain structure. When the bones are right, you can dress it in many ways.

I hate rules. I hate 'This is the way things are done'. I hate a lack of reinvention. I hate theatre as an archeological exercise. Theatre needs to be urgent.

You don't have to love cooking to cook, but you have to do more than love baking to bake. You have to bake out of love.

I'm not heavily into baking.

Why not question what can or can't be a layer in layer cake?

I think a lot of people think being in the kitchen is being really serious, and especially that baking is very serious, very straitlaced. For me, it's about figuring out your voice, finding your personality, and getting in the kitchen to explore.

Invention hovers always a little above the rules.

You've got to know the rules to break them.

You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you master the old rule, you are then the master-and masters get to change things.

You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.

There are no rules in filmmaking

I’m going to break one of the rules of the trade here. I’m going to tell you some of the secrets of improvisation. Just remember—it’s always a good idea to follow the directions exactly the first time you try a recipe. But from then on, you’re on your own.

You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.

Consider everything an experiment.

Convention is the ruler of all.

Perhaps the most important thing I can tell you about equipment is to experiment and keep an open mind.

Religious law is like the grammar of language. Any language isgoverned by such rules; otherwise it ceases to be a language. But within them, you can say many different sentences and write many different books.

I do think that the more takes you have the more opportunity to experiment [but] at a certain point, there are diminishing returns. There's only so much variety you offer.

I like the dynamism and the joy cabare creates. I have always taken my job very seriously, but have always liked to have fun, to play. I like tradition and classicism but I have always liked to mix it up, even if it shocks at times.

It's important to pull tons of pieces! If you have lots of options to choose from, you can play around and see that things that you wouldn't originally have expected to work together actually do! That applies to both clothing and decorating.