If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.

I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.

The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?

We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman shook it, it just fell back in.

'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.

I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'

My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous.