Style is very different from fashion. Once you find something that works, keep it.

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

Choose your team carefully. So much of your success is due to the people who you surround yourself with. Your friends, your family, and the people that you work with -- they all play an important role in inspiring you and supporting you and giving you stability. These are the people in your life who will be honest with you.

Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially.

You have to look inside yourself and you have to say, well, what am I about? Why does anyone need this? Why does anyone need a 'Tom Ford' jacket? What do I believe in?

I'm actually very introverted. I'm very shy. I'm very emotional.

I think we're very uptight in America. You have to remember that we're descended from Puritans. Whether or not the country is now composed of immigrants, our culture as American really begins with the landing of the Pilgrims and a puritanical view of things.