When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an actor.

I think loneliness comes with being creative, because you are obsessed with creation. And it is so satisfying that sometimes, I have noticed, I completely neglect my friends and my family, and they fall away.

I hope people will put aside Tom Ford the fashion designer and think about Tom Ford the filmmaker.

Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth.

My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish, she had big hair, big cars. I was probably 3 years old, but she was like a cartoon character. She'd swoop into our lives with presents and boxes, and she always smelled great and looked great.

Both film and fashion are businesses where the audience doesn't feel or see the work that goes on behind the scenes.

When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.