One of the things I love so much about Valerie [Belin] is that she inhabits her body so completely. She has no self-consciousness about having stretch marks or having given birth. It's just so amazing that she has nothing to hide. Whereas all these other women see every little - supposed - imperfection - anything irregular is seen as an imperfection.

I also met Dominique Sanda, who I always worshipped.

My desire is to preserve the sense of people’s lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want the people in my pictures to stare back.

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

I don't know if Yves St Laurent likes my work but Pierre Bergé does.

As a non-Catholic, and since I was a child, I have been obsessed with the ritual and the beauty of Catholic art. I look at Renaissance art all the time.

I had said that when the first Bush got elected that I would leave the country. And when the second Bush wasn't even elected properly.