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

If you are creative, sometimes you give up a lot of things that other people have.

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.

I suppose everything I do has sexual undertones, but I don't set out to make everything about sex. My clothes are more about sensuality. What I do is dress and beautify the body. My feeling is, if you have something beautiful, then show it.

When I was young, I wanted to be a movie star. But I realized that you have no control being an actor. So I went to architecture school in NYC, because I was crazy about buildings. Then I began to realize that I got more excited about Vogue coming out each month than I was about my projects.

You should put on the best version of yourself when you go out in the world because that is a show of respect to the other people around you.

Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.