Gisele Bundchen, along w Kate Moss, is a phenomenon. I wish models knew they have to have a personality

It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten.

I'm interested in seeing just the girl on the street because she is unlike any other. I'm inspired by whatever it is she might be wearing.

If you can't be better than your competition, just dress better.

People respond well to those that are sure of what they want.

If you look at any great fashion photograph out of context, it will tell you just as much about what's going on in the world as a headline in the New York Times.

The best way to make dream come true is to wake up.

You either know fashion or you don't.

There is something about fashion that can make people really nervous.

Fashion is not beautiful, neither is it ugly. Why should it be either? Fashion is fashion.

You can’t really worry too much…about what the competition is doing or what other people in your field are doing. It has to be a true vision.

I also realized by the way he actually cared that I could hurt him, really hurt him, if I wanted to. That's a power no one should ever realize. It's toxic.

...to know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes by discerning of spirits

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

I like to make movies I like to watch.

If the eye of the heart is open, in each atom there will be one hundred secrets

I start from something considered dead and arrive at a world. And when I put a title on it, it becomes even more alive.

Everyone wants to connect with someone who people think is someone.

I want to be able to control things and that's very difficult to do if you're not 100% in a particular language. It makes you uncertain and it makes you nervous.