I don't think of Maria Schneider like idol anymore, because I worshipped her when I was young.

My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them.

The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.

One of my assistants, a British man, says I should find a platform for [cosmetic industry]. Meanwhile I wear make-up.

I've got really prolific since I moved to Paris where I am living permanently, for the rest of my life, until I find another idea. I have really close women friends here: Valerie, Raymonde, not Joana so much, Maria Schneider, who was always a real heroine of mine who and has now become a close friend.

Gena Rowlands is fabulous.

I've become really interested in the landscape but not as landscape but more as it relates to mood and how we live and how the outside impacts on the inside. I didn't really look at the outside world during the years I was photographing the Ballad as I was locked inside my house and I lived totally inside.