It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

Money talks. It makes art. It determines what food we eat, whether we are cured or die, and what shoes we wear.

I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.

I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.

Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.

As with the Princess Di crash, which sent the media on the most insane feeding frenzy. From the moment of the crash, the pornography of sentiment never let up.

I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.