[I influenced by ]the work of early [Michelangelo] Antonioni, Orson Welles and [Carlo] Pasolini, I love [Nicolas Jack] Roeg's film "Performance".

I wasn't there [in U.S] when the city was bombed but it seems to have changed my friends.

You know it's said that you make your own face. So you don't really have a face until you are 30 or your mid-20s. When you are starting to grow up and show your character in your face.

I never thought heroin was very chic.

I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.

In Paris now, when I walk into stores and the shopgirls literally say to me every time, "We don't have anything in your size".

I never courted that but it's nice when it's people you respect and they respect your work. It's thrilling.