Tom Colicchio Quotes

I became friends with a lot of chefs. I was a judge on 'Top Chef' last year. It was a dream come true.

I love 'Top Chef.' I think it rewrote the book on how food shows are presented on TV.

The 'Love Island' team are the best in the business.

'Top Chef' is always entertaining - it's hard to stop watching, like a good hockey fight, but no one gets hurt. It's great that the format is so inherently dramatic and can make cooking so entertaining to people who might not ordinarily be interested in a cooking show. Good for the industry all round.

I love food shows: Anthony Bourdain, Iron Chef, Chopped, you name it.

I created 'Dinner: Impossible' with a guy named Bryan O'Reilly and I shot the pilot as a 30 minute show and we sold it.

I'm obsessed with 'Top Chef'.

I don't regret putting 'The Apprentice' on television.

When TV companies stop coming up with ideas, and I've got to go and do 'Celebrity Big Brother,' I don't want that to happen.

I love 'Top Chef.'

'Top Chef' is a very smooth-running machine. All the people working there are incredibly professional and absolutely at the top of their game.

I'd like to be an assistant producer to a reality show.

My agent said that every Monday after an episode of 'Entourage,' at the staff meeting at the agency, that's all they do is talk about the episode the night before.

I am so proud of 'Top Chef' - I think it's got great cred.

I have heard a lot of people talk about this grind of series television. I have not seen it yet.

From Julia Child to 'The Galloping Gourmet' and the Food Channel and Cooking Channel, our fascination with the spectacle of cooking has been a mainstay of TV entertainment.

I watched the first week of 'Hell's Kitchen'. It was fascinating to see Marco Pierre White because I've only ever seen him in moody photographs.

The 'Road Rules' thing was just something that happened. It was never like when I was little I said, 'I want to be on a reality show when I grow up.' They didn't even have them then, you know?

I get tempted to do a reality show because I enjoy them so much.

I'm going to get T-shirts made that say 'Paula Marshall is Not a Show Killer.'

'MasterChef' is pretty good.

What makes me laugh is 'Masterchef,' with that ridiculous thing they always say, 'cooking doesn't get any tougher than this!.'

TV has taken a crazy turn, especially in the industry of food, where everything is either a competition show or a sort of reality show. We've lost the kind of shows that are, like, 'Here's how you do this,' like the old Julia Child shows.

Making good television is what Simon Cowell does. That's his business.

I was lucky that I got to do films in between seasons of 'Chuck.'