I don't like to treat a piece of clothing like an object of art because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm a designer.

Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water.

I don't want to be too 'classic' because it's not in the DNA of Gucci. You need to be a little bit provocative.

When I joined Gucci in 2002, I immediately wanted to make a research trip into the archives because I'd heard about how incredible they were, but I never had the opportunity to visit them.

My biggest satisfaction is always when I make something beautiful and well-done that I can see on a real man or woman - not only in the glossy magazines.

I am comfortable giving people direction. If something is not good enough, my job is to find a way to help them learn from their mistake, and understand that next time I expect better.

I think the '70s are always inspiring to me. I was born then, so I have a lot of memories about how my parents were and what kinds of movies I was watching.

The first thing I notice about a man are his shoes. Then I look at his watch.

If we give girls and women the chance to change their lives, they can change the world.

The idea of 'ferie,' or summer break, is a long tradition of which all Italians, including myself, participate. It's a time to relax, reflect and recharge.

All the drawings and sketches and clothes of Yves Saint Laurent in the '70s were so colorful, so bright.

It's cloaked in cultural mumbo jumbo, but I assure you that it is very hard science.

Paying the high cost of education is better than paying the high price of ignorance.

I come from a home where gravy is a beverage.

Falling down ain't falling down, If you don't cry when you hit the floor, It's called the past cause I'm getting past, And I ain't nothing like I was before, You ought to see me now

I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.

I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.

I got involved in script development from the beginning. It was nice to see how a film gets made right from the beginning. It was quite hands-on for me.

The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

The odds were against us, but we deserve to be where we are.

I went before the Lord, and I wrote what the Lord told me to write . . . .