From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.

Only hire people you want to have dinner with.

I'm a believer in fate and in fulfilling your destiny. I've always had a kind of inner voice that I have learned to listen to.

You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.

In another life I would love to be a cosmetic surgeon because it’s architectural. You know, you are trying to figure out where the seams go. Can I do it in one piece like Halston? Can you formaldehyde DNA?

On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.

Style. People talk about it being stylish and beautiful, that's at the service of the story. Style for me means nothing without substance and there are moments and things about the film that are stylish but hopefully at the service of the story.