Food as Symbolism Quotes

I attended classes and taught classes, in Food Anthropology at Pace University, with an anthropology professor. You can trace history by the architecture and food of a place. Food is one of those things that transcends and stays in the culture.

I am fascinated by how people eat and what it reveals about them.

The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.

I guess I've always been kind of obsessed with food. I always liked drawing food, and I always liked stories - I think I probably just read somewhere that stories are better if someone's eating in them. I don't know where that came from, but it really stuck, and I always try to put food in.

'Tampopo's amazing. I think it's an absolutely fantastic movie, but I don't think it captures for me the meaning of food.

To me, what I'm interested in, in the end, is the meaning of food in our lives.

Food can be expressive and therefore food can be art.

The original title for 'In the Mood for Love' was called 'A Story About Food.' The idea was to tell a love story through different courses.