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

My life is more important. At this point in my life I'm alone. I don't think about it a lot.

American magazines are becoming very patriotic beyond belief to the point that I can't live there any more.

I'm very flattered when people I respect like my work. It's like a dream of a little kid when somebody I idolised likes my work.

For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caress… I think that you can actually give people access to their own soul.

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

I used to live with Teri Toye in the '80s - a really gorgeous transsexual. She won Girl of the Year in 1986 [I think] as a Chanel model and she introduced this whole way of slinky, slow-motion modeling. It was amazing that the girl of the year was actually born male.