How to Cook Your Life
2007 · 93 MIN · IMDB 5.9 · 352 VOTES · DIR. Doris Dörrie
Overview
A Zen priest in San Francisco and cookbook author use Zen Buddhism and cooking to relate to everyday life.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,148 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:02:15 Welcome. I am very happy to be here... .
00:05:53 .... Without really having what you want...
00:09:09 ...fold in half, and push.
00:12:09 Okay, you don't have the salt on, it looks like.
00:15:59 ...really annoying.
00:19:58 We have three little circles on the altar, so we use those as a reminder.
00:25:09 ...potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant...
00:28:20 Mom will not show up to handle this for you.
00:31:45 ...smell with your nose, taste with your tongue.
00:36:23 And if you can't control them, and if those things...
00:39:55 You can't have intensity, or determination, or creativity...
00:46:05 We take to worst of it off, but we try not to throw anything out.
00:50:13 But once you find out how easy it is to do...
00:54:02 By using even more oil.
00:58:12 I'm not a purist. I think everything we do is tainted.
01:01:20 You take care of the food, you take care of yourself... .
01:04:29 Tomatoes are seasonal vegetables.
01:07:52 ...dug a hole, put them in, and buried them.
01:10:51 ...because they're not getting anyplace. And they think, "This isn't working. "
01:14:22 It was written in this letter a week before she died.
01:18:28 So I made biscuits again...
01:22:07 ...actually, we appreciate the lines.
01:26:12 And that value, you know...
01:31:16 I vow to become it
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,148
Dialogue density12.3 lines / min
First line00:02:15
Final line01:31:16
Production Record
DirectorDoris Dörrie
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes352