You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.

I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

If I hear a film clip, or I happen to see some image from a film - you go to a film festival, and they show some clip of the movies you've been in, most of the time I sit there and go, "Oh God, I should have... should have... that was terrible." But I think that's a natural part of this work, because really, your work is never over. Of course I can leave it alone and walk off the set and never think about it again when it's done. But your work is really ongoing all the time.

One doesn't know if one had a happy childhood or not. I don't really know what it means.

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.