Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend to have a heavy physicality in that way.

I don't think my work is so strange. It's just a matter of having the discipline to go the whole way with an idea, to stretch it as far as it can go.

A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it

I'm less interested in skin than in fascia -- connective tissue.

Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body

A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted.

People think that other international languages are smarter and more business wise. But they have to understand that we have to preserve our culture.

What politics I ever learned, I learned in the streets, because it was part of the environment.

At the risk of sounding naff, it is having hope fulfilled.

Hermès and my own brand share the same philosophy, the same vision of women, but the two aren't identical.

Might have been a time when I loved her too but you take that away and you'll always be the one.

These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.

If churches want to play the game of politics, let them pay admission like everyone else.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

I often times find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It's almost out of necessity.

Clearly, Russia has lied to the world about what's going on in Ukraine. They have clearly violated the cease-fire agreements.