Certain directors are known for a certain kind of beauty; it becomes their signature.

We have to have genius creative thoughts precisely four times a year and on exact dates. I actually write them on my calendar. I write, 'Friday, Nov. 8. Three o'clock. Have a genius creative idea.'

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

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.

Banking types should take their cue from Gordon Gekko. Or pick the best-looking banker in their firm and copy him.

I think that right now we're in a very hard moment and off-putting. I mean, look at shoes today - women's shoes. They couldn't possibly get any higher and meaner and sharper. But then again, you go and watch most films today, they're violent and we're living in a world that is, at the moment, quite hard.

The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that.