Don't forget that costumes, like dreams, are symbolic communication. Dreams teach us that a language for everything exists - for every object, every color worn, every clothing detail. Hence, costumes provide an aesthetic objectification that helps to tell the character's story.

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.

Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

There is no such thing as a good paparazzo. A good paparazzo, that's a paparazzo who has had his camera broken. In fact, they are bandits, thieves of photography. (Statement after photographs were published showing Jackie Onassis sunbathing nude.)

Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.

Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism.