As a filmmaker, you realize that places have character based on their history as much as a face does or an actor does.
If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.
The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.
Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.
I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.
I've had good times; I've had bad times.
Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.
Hats make people feel good, and that's the point of them.
Necessity creates everything in my life.
Die and born again, die and born again. It's the story of my life.
You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.
The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit.
I translated Beatles songs for my English class.
The shoe is very much an X-ray of social comportment.
In fashion, only sexy won't go out of fashion.
During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois.
We all retire one day. If we want to, if we don't want to.
What I'm really trying to do is create unique characters.
Basically, I was a hippie and still am a flower child.
When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.
Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never want to look the same way.
