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

I love fashion. What I love is the ability to express yourself, to be able to make a product and shoot an ad campaign that tosses you out into the world and lets you have a voice in contemporary culture, iconography. I felt a little bit neutered not having that voice.

Second-guess [myself]? Yes, I do. I question everything I do every step of the way. Once I make the decision I'm almost blinded by believing in it, and then I usually hate everything I've done.

A film, since it is primarily a visual medium, should really be like a silent film. You should be able to watch something and understand what was going on and use voice when you need to communicate something you can't necessarily communicate visually. The book is the opposite. The book is an inner monologue which is beautiful.

Artists, like yourself, are born with a need to express that's just innate.

The idea of losing someone that you love could throw you into a situation where you could not see your future and you really would be living in the past.

The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar.