The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the problem. There is no longevity.

I think the New Bohemians' inability to say no was a big part of our problem.

I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.

There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.

Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.

I think the universe is just so big that there has to be something else out there.