Phil Rosenthal

As long as I live, I'm going to do it one way or another.

I have no idea if Netflix picks us up.

We're their longest running show, eight seasons.

They like things that have two or three seasons, and they're on to the next new thing.

That's how they get new subscribers.

But I'm always like, what about the existing subscribers?

If they like a thing, look at Raymond, right?

But the business is different now.

But I'm telling you.

Listen, I don't need a TV show to travel.

But if I'm going and people seem to like it and learn from it and go places because they saw the show, I meet them every day, they actually come to the diner and tell me, we went to Kyoto because we saw your show.

Nothing makes me happier.

Their lives are better because they went, not because of me, but because they got up and went.

So if I could inspire one person, like just that lady I met this morning who told me about Kyoto, my job is done.

Listen, I think at her age, more accomplished than I was at my age then.

I got something to say.

If I don't have something to say, I don't do it.

I write the cookbooks.

I have two cookbooks out, which are recipes from the show and from the great chefs that I know in my life.

They're terrific cookbooks because these chefs are so fantastic.