what actually happens to my physical remains is of zero interest to me. i don t want anybody seeing my body. i don t want anybody i don t want a party. reported dead. unless they can provide entertainment value in a perverse or subversive way. i mean, if you could throw me into a wood chirp, spray me into har rod s in the middle of the rush hour, that would be pretty epic. i wouldn t being mind being remembered in that way. one, two, three four five six with the radio on i m in love with massachusetts and the neon when it s cold outside and the highway when it s late at night with the radio on what the [ muted ] am i doing here? i shall explain. one minute i was standing next though a deep fryer. the next, i was watching the sunset over the sahara. i realize that one thing led directly to the other. had i not taken a dead-end dish washing job, i would not have become a cook. had i not become a cook, i would never have become a chef. had i not bec
it was an embittering experience. it got all of us thinking about, you know, what s important in life. it s recording. oh, my god. you look like an idiot. so i m talking with mr. anthony bourdain. this is our vacation video. we re going to show this to our children. welcome to my first independent film. my spring vacation. how do you say that in english? is this a bad thing? tony was single and ottavia worked for me. tony called me and said who is this girl, ottavia? and i said have fun don t take it seriously. you know, we were the perfect match for those occasional, you know, rendezvous.
i suddenly realized, wait a minute, this film-making thing can be fun. you know it s a big crayon box. we can actually enjoy this. why am i here? am i insane? you know, he used to say don t ever let me do tv. the thing is like if i ever do tv, shoot me. and, you know, at first it was awful. where do cooks come from? the answer to this and other questions to follow. and then very quickly he s such a good student and so friggin smart, he, like, figured it out. chris, lydia, i love you. you know that, right? but i got one night in bangkok here, not every 24 hours. you want to do a whole god damn show in 24 hours. fine. forget about blocking out, no plan. you better be fast. i want to have a good time. we re going to roll, and if you don t get it, you don t get it.
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all right. all right. you re up? so where are we? but don t not to mention name of the place. no, why? you don t want to blow this place up. i don t give a shit. you ve been eating here how long? since i was a kid. you want to come in here and see nothing but americans, nothing but. nothing but. just. so nobody but my boss. okay then we are there we go. how many generations of filmmakers in your family? hmm, a lot. when tony met aja, he was like she s the best, she s so great, like when you were in high school and you got laid for the first time or something. i m happiest when life is kind of like a film. you re happy in the illusion, because film is an illusion.