Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.

I just get inspired to take a picture by the beauty and vulnerability of my friends.

One of the fashion things I ever did was for Helmut Lang for Visionaire magazine and I used people from all genders. People from the age of 18 - like James King - to people like my friend Sharon [Stone] who's about 50 or older. People of all different shapes and literally all different genders and my boyfriend at the time and his daughter who was 11.

[John] Cassavetes, "Killing of a Chinese Booker", "Opening Night" are my favourites.

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.

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

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