I'm trying just to do good clothes, clothes that you need as much as you want.

Let's try to bring more style into basics, and let's touch real people all around the world, people who don't really care who Christophe Lemaire is.

I try to bring as much taste, smartness, quality, functionality, and aesthetic qualities to everyday clothes.

It's true that I've made mistakes, but I know I shouldn't do them again.

I'm interested in the poetry of reality.

I'm interested in the intimate relationships we can have with those good clothes that we may have in our closets.

Through designing clothes, I try to bring solutions to people, and I'm interested in the everyday relationship we have to clothes.

This is what I've always been interested in, trying to make timeless, functional, real clothes.

Everywhere I've been working, I always had in mind the final destination of the clothes, which is the consumer.

For me, the fashion show, the image, the shooting, is just a step. It's just a moment, but it's not the final destination.

I very much believe in the collective work and the team dynamic.

Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.

The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing.

[Making people laugh] was a secret dream I kept and I didn't tell anybody about it until I was about 18.

You may travel far and wide but never will you find the boundaries of the soul.

In every religion, there are those who would drape themselves in the mantle of belief and faith only to distort it's most sacred teachings - preaching intolerance and resorting to violence.

If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.

I climbed down the outside of a Holiday Inn once just to surprise one of my crew by getting on his balcony and knocking on his window.

Winny would spend all of his time practicing limbo. He got pretty good. He could go under a rug.

You cannot win an election without a fight

I just want to make sure that public service doesn't have to be an occupation, but it needs to be a way of life.