Interview DirectoryCategoryAll InterviewsArchitectureArtBusinessDanceFashionFilmFoodLiteratureMusicSportsTagsShow AllActorFilm DirectorHollywood IconsSingerSongwriterArtistScreenwriterAll InterviewsArchitectureArtBusinessDanceFashionFilmFoodLiteratureMusicSportsAll Tags:Show AllActorFilm DirectorHollywood IconsSingerSongwriterArtistScreenwriterSortingFirst nameLast nameMost recentRolex Arts FestivalThe Talks is proud to celebrate 20 years of the Rolex Mentor And Protégé Arts Initiative.#PerpetualAA Bronson: “I’m as fearless as I ever was”Aaron Sorkin: “That takes quite an ego”Abel Ferrara: “Does pain really teach you at all?”Adam Selman: “You’re not tied to your clothes”Adrien Brody: “I don’t have an option”Agustina San Martin: “I refuse to be one thing”Agyness Deyn: “I’ve mellowed out”Ai Weiwei: “The power designs itself to crush you”Al Pacino: “You can’t let your skin get too thick”Alan Menken: “Always be in love with the process”Albert Hammond Jr.: “I loved pushing that boundary”Albert Watson: “You never get that day back”Alejandro Iñárritu: “There is no way you can stop”Alex Honnold: “I’ve always been afraid of death”Alex Prager: “The idea is more important than anything”Alexander Ebert: “I was constantly in trouble”Alexander Payne: “I was far from the most talented”Alfie Allen: “It’s a form of torture every night”Alicia Keys: “It can’t be held back anymore”Alicia Vikander: “You just work through it”Alison Roman: “There’s no assignment”Allen Jones: “There’s nothing you can do”Amalia Dayan and Daniella Luxembourg: “It’s a personal quest”Amy Schumer: “That’s all I can ask for”Ana Roš: “It has to do with our own personality”André Saraiva: “The night is not a time, it's a place”Andrea Bocelli: “Life has been good to me”Andreas Deja: “Realism is the tough part”Andrew Garfield: “It’s a wound and a gift”Andrew Kevin Walker: “It still gave me nightmares”Andrew Wong: “Authenticity is fluid”Ang Lee: “No one can see what’s coming”Angela Missoni: “You cannot live in the past”Anish Kapoor: “I have nothing to say”Anne Imhof: “You get bolder over time”Anne-Sophie Pic: “I faced the world of cuisine alone”Anthony Hopkins: “I see the lines, but I don’t care”Antoine Predock: “You keep the doorway open”Anton Corbijn: “My life is crazy, but it’s real love”Anton Yelchin: “There are no real answers”Antonio Banderas: “I live in the mystery”Ari Wegner: “It’s a really connected experience”Arlo Parks: “It feels like what I’m meant to do”Armando Iannucci: “There are no rules anymore”Arturo Sandoval: “Focus on today”Audrey Tautou: “Who is the artist?”Axel Vervoordt: “I like evolution, not revolution”Barry Blitt: “A joke cuts through everything”Ben Kingsley: “I love the now, it is all we have”Ben van Berkel: “I want to stay experimental”Benedict Cumberbatch: “Your mind has the power to shape reality”Benjamin Millepied: “It’s not a matter of perfection”Benjamin Moser: “What is too much experience?”Benoît Astier de Villatte and Ivan Pericoli: “It’s a universe on its own”Bill Conti: “I’m writing it for emotional reaction”Bill Murray: “It’s more intake than output”Bill Nighy: “If everybody laughs, job done”Bjarke Ingels: “What is the standard solution not doing?”Björk: “There is a dramatic change in the air”Black Francis: “It doesn’t feel like anger”Bong Joon-ho: “The fear is hard to get rid of”Brendan Fraser: “I am not a stranger to that”Bret Easton Ellis: “You can’t lie anymore”Brian De Palma: “You have to battle”Brie Larson: “I hope my work makes people feel less alone”Brigitte Lacombe: “My entire life has been my work”Bruce Dern: “You’ve got to keep accelerating”Bryan Cranston: “I want to slow it down”Caleb Landry Jones: “Acting will always be strange to me”Calvin Klein: “I like the element of surprise”Carla Bruni: “The real matter is the people you love”Carla Sozzani: “You need generosity to do this”Carol Lim & Humberto Leon: “It’s all work and all fun”Catherine Deneuve: “You don’t tell the same stories”Catherine Wood: “How can we inhabit the image?”César Pelli: “One aspires for the sky”Chaitanya Tamhane: “I want to find my own language”Charles Yu: “Reality is taking notes from fiction”Charlie Hunnam: “I worry that I’ll get devoured”Charlie Kaufman: “I don’t believe in rules”Charlotte Rampling: “You have to be brave”Chiharu Shiota: “The fear is necessary”Chilly Gonzales: “I try to pull the curtain back”Chiwetel Ejiofor: “You’ve got to swing for the rafters”Chloë Sevigny: “I am leaning towards mysticism”Chloé Zhao: “I call it the age of innocence”Chris Cole: “Skateboarding had it all”Chris Pratt: “I’m not going to freak out”Christian Bale: “I like being responsible for myself”Christine Vachon: “You have to have the stomach for it”Christo: “It’s not a profession, it’s existence”Christoph Niemann: “I don’t need a big idea”Christoph Waltz: “It has nothing to do with the job”Christopher Kane: “You can’t just put your head down”Christopher Walken: “That’s it, it’s over”Chuck Palahniuk: “You can’t just be a spectator”Clare Smyth: “You’re always storing things”Claude Chabrol: “There’s nothing original in my movies”Claudia Comte: “It’s never-ending once you start”Claudia Fleming: “I am out here on a limb”Clive Davis: “You’ve got to earn it”Coco Capitán: “We have gone to the other extreme”Colin Farrell: “I don’t think parenthood changes you”Colin Firth: “It sounds awfully spoiled, but I’ll take it”Colleen Atwood: “You want them to resonate”Colson Whitehead: “All our former selves are still there”Cosey Fanni Tutti: “It’s like a metamorphosis”Craig Green: “Keep making that weird stuff”Craig Roberts: “Nobody knows what’s going on”Curtis ‘50 Cent’ Jackson: “Money is freedom”Daisuke Nakazawa: “You need to work for what you want”Dan Barber: “Tension is resolved through flavor”Daniel Boulud: “There was such camaraderie”Daniel Humm: “This is enough”Daniel Kaluuya: “Making it is not impossible”Daniel Libeskind: “I never had a goal”Daniel Radcliffe: “I’ve released a lot of the pressure”Danny DeVito: “You’ve gotta go in all the way”Danny Elfman: “I’m wired in this way”Darren Aronofsky: “I wish I could be more manipulative”David Bailey: “How are you going to cross the road?”David Byrne: “We did okay”David Chipperfield: “There is no defining moment”David Doubilet: “My favorite picture is the one I haven’t taken”David J. Peterson: “Does it fit the culture?”David LaChapelle: “Everything was dramatic”David Lynch: “Stories should have the suffering”David Newman: “You’re bonded to it”David Oyelowo: “You are not the center”David Sedaris: “What do I write about now?”David Shrigley: “There is room for everything”Davis Guggenheim: “I want to keep breaking the rules”Dean and Dan Caten: “We try it all on”Debbie Harry: “The music speaks for itself”Deborah L. Scott: “The heart of it is always the same”Deborah Landau: “The familiar is made strange again”Deborah Landis: “Costumes are talismans”Denise Gough: “It feels like I need to hold back”Dennis Hopper: “I thought I had power”Dennis Lehane: “It’s a question of interest”Dennis Muren: “There’s a magic to it”Dennis Paphitis: “Life without some excess, forget it”Denzel Curry: “I have no regrets”Denzel Washington: “I don't think there is a system”Diane Kruger: “Who needs to be told what to think?”Diane Lane: “I try not to draw attention to myself”Dieuveil Malonga: “Food has no borders”Dimore Studio: “We try and hit all of the senses”Dominique Lévy: “You need to constantly refill”Don Cheadle: “Movies are not attempting to educate you”Don Winslow: “I like being scorned”Douglas Gordon: “You pull yourself up and you push it out”Dries Van Noten: “I want to show reality”Dwayne Johnson: “It comes with the game”Ebecho Muslimova: “Making art is not a pleasant feeling”Ed Viesturs: “Push yourself to another level”Edgar Wright: “It becomes a bit like alchemy”Edward Berger: “All it takes is a good script”Edward Norton: “It’s about balance”Elena Arzak: “We need to be open to change”Elijah Wood: “Every film has its own part to play”Elisabeth Moss: “Truth is stranger than fiction”Elizabeth Olsen: “I just had to step it up”Elizabeth Peyton: “History is contained within people”Ellen Kuras: “I’ve always worked in my mind’s eye”Elmgreen & Dragset: “It’s time to change”Elvis Costello: “I didn’t have some big blueprint”Emile Hirsch: “That’s why I am the way I am”Emma Stone: “Anxiety in its essence is fear”Erdem Moralioglu: “She’s so many different people”Eric Ripert: “Anger is a weakness”Eric Roth: “Screenwriting is a bastardized form of art”Eric Wahlforss: “We had nothing else”Erik Spiekermann: “A good concept will survive forever”Erwin Wurm: “It only exists at this one time”Ethan Hawke: “I wonder if I’m up to the task”Fabien Baron: “We’ve just seen the beginning”Fana Hues: “It feels like completion”Federico Marchetti: “You cannot be a follower”Ferdinando Cito Filomarino: “It was a different type of mission”Ferran Adrià: “Tastes change”Florian Hoffmeister: “That’s the birthplace of the visual”Flume: “I’ve started to put life as a priority”Flying Lotus: “Music wasn’t a reality for me”Francesco Clemente: “Making art is to time-travel”Francine Houben: “What’s most important is the senses”Francis Ford Coppola: “It’s a devastating decision”Francis Kéré: “There’s an element of fantasy”Francis Mallmann: “Human beings need contradictions”François Ozon: “I don't suffer”Frank Langella: “I couldn’t look a girl in the eye”Frédéric Malle: “Something had to change”Freida Pinto: “If you're bothered, change the channel”Gab Bois: “If it’s yours, it’ll come”Gabriel Orozco: “I try to be disappointing”Gabriela Garcia: “There are pieces of me in everything”Gael García Bernal: “Growing up is such a gift”Gaetano Pesce: “The future is a beautiful time”Garance Doré: “I want to keep the distance”Gareth Pugh: “I like that I feel out of place”Garry Kasparov: “There’s no more room for bluffs”Gary Player: “I have no intention of slowing down”Gary Simmons: “You want to create questions”Genesis Owusu: “I’ve always known who I am”Geoffrey Rush: “Why have we become this way?”Georg Baselitz: “The good things will never cause anyone to look”George MacKay: “You can’t dream up something you haven’t felt”Gerhard Steidl: “I turn everything upside down”Gilbert & George: “We don’t do art for the few”Giorgio Armani: “We all need to step up”Giorgio Moroder: “I was always interested in the hits”Glenn Close: “My passion is exactly the same”Grimes: “I want to be the best”Guillermo del Toro: “I am not meta, I am really earnest”Gunner Stahl: “You can tell if it’s real or not”Gus Van Sant: “You always want it to be different”Guy Pearce: “Where’s my conviction?”Haider Ackermann: “I used to be quite dark”Hajime Sorayama: “Creating is my freedom”Hannelore Knuts: “This was only the introduction”Hans Ulrich Obrist: “I believe in generosity as a medium”Hans Zimmer: “You are forever in that dream world”Harry Benson: “I’m keeping their image alive”Helen Cammock: “I want to change whose stories are heard”Hélène Darroze: “Good taste is in my DNA”Henry Cavill: “We don’t play a perfect game at all times”Hilary Swank: “You’ve got to trust your instincts”Ian McKellen: “The journey goes on”Ian Schrager: “It was like a lightning bolt”Idris Elba: “The process is like a jigsaw puzzle”Imran Amed: “There’s a new authenticity”Ini Archibong: “I have to stay spiritually in tune”Ira Glass: “All you can do is make work”Iris Apfel: “You can’t learn style”Iris van Herpen: “I try to stretch the boundaries”Irvine Welsh: “Failure is more interesting”Isabella Rossellini: “Things will come back”J.K. Simmons: “Good writing makes me crazy”Jack Nicholson: “I put on a good show”James Cameron: “All my movies are love stories”James Franco: “I do all my homework”James McAvoy: “I don’t feel entitled”James Mercer: “Everyone was too cool to care”Jamie Bell: “I get what I want out of it”Jan Lisiecki: “The music speaks for itself”Jane Birkin: “There was a sense of being totally free”Jane Campion: “It has to go beyond”Jared Leto: “Every film has changed my life”Jarvis Cocker: “It’s like seeing into the future”Jason Schwartzman: “I enter a weird mode”Jason Wu: “Taste is in the eye of the beholder”Javier Bardem: “My slate is clean”Jeff Bridges: “Life is my guru”Jeff Goldblum: “I can do this in a hundred ways”Jeff Mills: “You’re only limited by your imagination”Jesse Eisenberg: “I’m not being tricked”Jim Carrey: “There is no me”Jim Jarmusch: “What are they afraid of?”Jodie Foster: “We are in an era of identity searching”Joe Wright: “It’s a matter of feeling”Joel Edgerton: “I create my freedom around that”Joel Meyerowitz: “You have to let go of something”Jóhann Jóhannsson: “Does it speak simply and directly?”John C. Reilly: “We all owe a debt”John Hurt: “There’s not much work in it”John Malkovich: “I am not in any hurry”John Pawson: “It’s everything you need, but nothing extra”John Waters: “Stop blaming your parents”Johnny Marr: “Who cares about authentic?”Johnny Rotten: “I love chemical imbalances”Jon Batiste: “I’m a link in a chain”Jon Gray: “Home is where the heart is”Jon Landau: “I can’t do anything unless I’m all in”Jon Ronson: “I’m interested in hypocrisy”Jonathan Lethem: “Be a dark horse!”Jonathan Safran Foer: “You have to waste a lot to have a little”José Selgas and Lucía Cano: “There should be a why”Joseph Gordon-Levitt: “It hasn’t happened yet”Joshua Ramus: “I’m not saying that it’s easy”JR: “No one can own it”Jude Law: “It's not you”Judi Dench: “I have an irrational fear of boredom”Judy Chicago: “Get used to it!”Juergen Teller: “You know when the work is good”Julia Peyton-Jones: “You need that virtuous circle”Julian Schnabel: “I never thought of art as a career”Julianne Moore: “We want to feel something”Julie Delpy: “People should care about who they are”Juliette Binoche: “You have to be more intelligent”Justin Timberlake: “Be in the moment”Katharina Grosse: “I don’t see limits”Kazuo Ishiguro: “I’ll take as long as I need”Kean Etro: “We are the outsiders”Keira Knightley: “It’s the joy of growing up”Ken Forkish: “It just drew me”Kenneth Branagh: “It’s not such a great leap”Kevin Kline: “It’s a different sort of thrill”Kiernan Shipka: “I was living those themes in my own ways”Kiki Smith: “I just try to follow it”Kiri Te Kanawa: “It’s coming from your heart”Kris Van Assche: “You swim in order not to drown”Kristin Scott Thomas: “You forget how much it hurts”Kyle Bell: “I can do this”Laird Hamilton: “You should be scared”Larry Clark: “Why can’t you show everything?”Lars Ulrich: “So far, so good”Laura Dern: “We have to evolve together”Lawrence Weiner: “There’s no secret in words”LeBron James: “The fame never got to me”Lee “Scratch” Perry: “I am that I am”Leo Villareal: “There’s no agenda”Leonardo DiCaprio: “I am a lot calmer now”Leslie Odom Jr.: “We have to make room for all of it”Liam Neeson: “I created my own luck”Lianne La Havas: “I don’t do it for anybody else”Liesl Tommy: “Let your instincts take over”Lily James: “You’re at the mercy of circumstance”Lily King: “You don’t know until you start writing”Lina Ghotmeh: “Identity is never fixed”Lindsey Vonn: “Mind over matter”Liza Lou: “Survival is at the core of it”Lubomyr Melnyk: “It has to be lived”Luca Guadagnino: “I try to surrender to my evidences”Ludovico Einaudi: “It was like a ritual”Ludwig Göransson: “I’m building a puzzle”Lupita Nyong’o: “I have to transform who I am”M. Night Shyamalan: “I’m who you want in there”M.I.A.: “I made it to where that actions begins”Ma Yansong: “It’s about the spirit behind it”Magnus Nilsson: “It was something that I always knew”Mahershala Ali: “The stakes were always high”Maisie Schloss: “It’s so deeply my aesthetic”Maisie Williams: “I’ve learned to protect myself”Maja Lunde: “I never start with a message”Manolo Blahnik: “You don’t have to show your status”Manu Buffara: “Simple things reconnect us with life”Marco Brambilla: “There’s too much going on”Margaret Howell: “The clothes become a part of you”Margo Jefferson: “Criticism demands authority”Marianne Elliott: “You’re there to change lives”Marina Abramović: “I've always been a soldier”Mario Sorrenti: “There has to be intimacy”Marion Cotillard: “My dream was simple”Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi: “Storytelling is what we do”Mark Duplass: “It’s a dog fight”Mark Ronson: “I’m very aware of my place in music”Mark Seliger: “Let’s do something special”Mark Wallinger: “A perfect mirror throws back everything”Marlee Matlin: “That’s what keeps me going”Martin Parr: “I don’t expect to change anyone’s mind”Martin Schoeller: “I don’t think you can capture a soul”Mary Katrantzou: “It’s impossible not to doubt”Massimo Bottura: “I’m not cooking to create good food”Matt Abergel: “I want people to come and eat it; that’s it!”Matt Damon: “These types of movies are going away”Matt Dillon: “There’s always something to look for”Matthew Libatique: “That’s not lost on me”Matty Healy: “Nostalgia is beautiful”Maurizio Cattelan: “Show them life”Max Richter: “I like to get to the essentials”Mel Ramos: “Why not be naked in public?”Melissa Leo: “Acting has given me a purpose”Meryl Streep: “I'm not always happy”Michael Ballhaus: “Nobody can hurt me”Michael Caine: “I don’t get the girl, I get the part”Michael Douglas: “Youth is wasted on the young”Michael Pitt: “Don’t give yourself an out”Michael Pollan: “We vote with our forks”Michael Shannon: “There’s no reward other than knowledge”Michel Comte: “We need to listen to nature”Michel Gondry: “I believe in Utopia”Mick Jagger: “Excess was the order of the day”Mick Rock: “I blame the name”Mike Tyson: “If I fought Mike Tyson I could beat him”Mila Kunis: “They build you up just to knock you down”Milton Glaser: “We’re all in it together”Miranda July: “I am making more room in the world”Moby: “I don’t want anything from music”Mona Hatoum: “It’s about shattering the familiar”Monica Bellucci: “I like to explore the dark side”Morgan Freeman: “Strive for pleasure and peace”Mr. Brainwash: “If I believe it, it’s art for me”Mykki Blanco: “I was in an existential place”Natacha Ramsay-Levi: “You have to push things further”Neil Young: “You have to break out of it”Nelly Furtado: “Let’s pull the mask off now”Newton Thomas Sigel: “I can close my eyes and see it”Nicholas Kirkwood: “You have to know your craft”Nick Cave: “I don’t think that people want to be like me”Nick Hornby: “You can wait forever for the muse”Nick Knight: “I commit with my heart and soul”Nick Mason: “No one owes anyone anything”Nick Offerman: “I have a pugilist in me”Nico Muhly: “Pick your battles”Nicola Formichetti: “There will be a backlash”Nicolas Cage: “Sometimes it’s good to be hated”Nicole Kidman: “You choose the path”Niki Nakayama: “Everything about me knows it”Nils Frahm: “Everything can be used for the music”Nina Compton: “That’s the way to bridge the gap”Noah Baumbach: “You can't get away from yourself”Noah Goldstein: “I’ve always trusted my taste”Norman Jean Roy: “The camera used to carry this mystique”Ohad Naharin: “What is this something else?”Ólafur Arnalds: “It’s not the end of the journey”Olafur Eliasson: “Things go wrong and we celebrate it”Ole Scheeren: “How can we break the mold?”Oliver Stone: “I’m braced for disappointment”Olivia Colman: “It will always be a mystery”Olivia Wilde: “It lights you up”Olivier Rousteing: “You fight through the night”Owen Wilson: “You just go with it”Paloma Elsesser: “I’m living less fearfully”Paolo Roversi: “My life is full of pictures I didn’t take”Pat Steir: “I avoid struggle”Patti Smith: “Rock 'n roll belongs to the people”Paul Banks: “I feel like they’re evocative enough”Paul Feig: “Comedy is never going to go away”Paul Schrader: “That day is gone”Paul Smith: “I’m happy to talk to anybody”Peaches: “Every kind of art is a privilege”Pedro Almodóvar: “Keep it on the rails”Pelé: “My father and my mother closed the machine”Pete Souza: “You’re doing it every day, all day”Peter Blake: “I’ll never have to fall off the mountain”Peter Dinklage: “The fight is all”Peter Fonda: “I'll shoot first, right through the door.”Peter Hook: “A magic that people can tune in to”Peter Lindbergh: “Beauty has nothing to do with youth”Peter Saville: “I never had to answer to anyone”Petra Collins: “I know what it’s like to be there”Philip Selway: “Allow yourself to be in the moment”Philipp Mainzer: “It just depends on how you use it”Pía León: “It’s a session of gratitude for the earth”Pierre Bergé: “Yves died at the right time”Pierre Gagnaire: “We’re obsessed with the superficial”Pierre Hermé: “It comes from curiosity”Pusha T: “People can hear passion”Quentin Tarantino: “It’s a corrupted cinema”Rachel Kushner: “There’s this lens over life”Rachel Whiteread: “I can let anything happen”Raf Simons: “The process never stops”Ragnar Kjartansson: “I know how to hide my tracks”Ralph Fiennes: “One’s vanity is always there”Ralph Steadman: “The line becomes more aggressive”Rami Malek: “It was daunting to live up to that”Randall Goosby: “It’s not just notes on a page”Rashid Johnson: “I can do this?”Rebecca Hall: “People are still people”Renée Zellweger: “I try to concentrate on something true”Renzo Rosso: “We have gained respect”Richard Deacon: “A stop, but not a finish”Richard Dreyfuss: “I have achieved all my dreams”Richard Gere: “We are all in this together”Richard Saul Wurman: “My world is a lattice”Richie Hawtin: “I’m interested in man and machine”Rick Owens: “I never had that much to lose”Ricky Gervais: “The truth is more devastating than a lie”Ridley Scott: “You can't have a comfortable ride”Rita Ackermann: “Nothingness is such a vast concept”Rita Ora: “I didn't have the answers”Rob Marshall: “There’s nothing like it”Rob Reiner: “I believe in it”Robert Harris: “Power is of endless interest”Robert Longo: “I went back to the beginning”Robert Montgomery: “I tend to like the pathetic”Robert Pattinson: “Everyone wants you to be so vanilla”Robert Polidori: “Why is there a line?”Robert Rabensteiner: “It’s all related to dreams”Robert Richardson: “I try to be a chameleon”Robert Wilson: “It’s okay to get lost”Robin Wright: “We’re always compromising”Rodney Scott: “You’ve got to stay patient”Rodrigo Prieto: “It’s all about emphasizing emotions”Roger Waters: “We are on a knife’s edge”Róisín Murphy: “Everything became about music”Roni Horn: “There’s nothing until there’s something”Rose Wylie: “If it works, it works”Rufus Wainwright: “I don’t preach”Russell Crowe: “I have a moral standard of my own”Ruth E. Carter: “We have to make it come to life”Ryan Gander: “It wants your attention”Ryan McGinley: “I am just so fascinated by the body”RZA: “I knew where to go”Saad Moosajee: “You have to resonate with it”Salman Rushdie: “The curse of an interesting life”Sam Harris: “Mindfulness is being divorced from its real potential”Sam Mendes: “No one is owed anything”Sam Raimi: “It’s done in earnestness”Sam Rockwell: “It’s just being there for the first time”Sandy Powell: “This is where I want to stay”Saniyya Sidney: “This is what I want to do”Sarah Morris: “There is no outside”Sarah Paulson: “It’s the way you come up”Sarah Polley: “It felt so revolutionary”Sarah Silverman: “Usually I’m the idiot”Sarah Sze: “How do we breathe life into objects?”Sean Penn: “I wouldn’t trade it for anything”Sean Scully: “The poet was always in me”Sergei Polunin: “It’s like being in the army”Seth MacFarlane: “There’s room for all”Sharon Eyal: “The story comes from inside the body”Sheila Atim: “This is who we are”Sheila Heti: “My life only changes when a book is done”Shirin Neshat: “You can’t demystify a myth”Shirley Manson: “I’m enough for me”Sienna Miller: “It’s always a dilemma”Simon Starling: “The practice has its own momentum”Sofia Coppola: “Film is our family business”Sonny Rollins: “I’m part of the universal spirit”Sonya Yoncheva: “Art cannot be lost”Space Invader: “You own the city”Spike Lee: “I’m not a quitter”Stacy Martin: “The film saves me”Stefan Sagmeister: “Function alone is not doing it”Stefano Pilati: “I used to divide people”Stellan Skarsgård: “Yes Lars, I’ll be there”Steve Buscemi: “I don’t really think about emotions”Steve Carell: “It’s different every time”Steve McCurry: “It’s like hitting a drum”Steve McQueen: “It’s about what’s right, not what fits”Steve Schapiro: “It’s a question of how you see it”Steven Soderbergh: “I can’t reverse a trend”Stewart O’Nan: “It’s not just dots on a page”Stuart Vevers: “I enjoy a big shift”Studio KO: “As long as it feels honest”Sugar Ray Leonard: “Whatever is needed to win, I will do that”Sumayya Vally: “Architecture is an assertion of who we are”Susan Goldberg: “It’s about doing the right thing”Susan Sarandon: “Let’s hope it changes”Susanne Bier: “I never looked back”Syd: “I’m ready to move forward”Sylvia Earle: “Everything on earth connects”T.C. Boyle: “We are animals”Tadao Ando: “There is no such thing as creation from nothing”Tahar Rahim: “Why recreate when you can create?”Taika Waititi: “No idea is final”Tara Donovan: “I don’t map it at all”Tavi Gevinson: “What is this exclusivity protecting?”Terry Gilliam: “Things happen”Thaddaeus Ropac: “People are hungry for new art”The Chemical Brothers: “That feeling lives with you”The National: “At peace with the darkness”Thea Sharrock: “Deal with it and reflect on it afterwards”Thom Browne: “You need to have conviction”Thom Mayne: “They want you to be left or right”Thomas Demand: “Aesthetics are inevitable”Thomas Hirschhorn: “It is an emancipatory gesture”Thomas Hoepker: “No rehearsal, just one click”Thomas Joshua Cooper: “Preparation is all you can do”Thomas Struth: “Now you've made it”Tiler Peck: “I’ve always been a storyteller”Tim Raue: “I never saw myself as a talented chef”Tim Roth: “It was our turn now”Todd Haynes: “You have to be alone to be inspired”Todd Selby: “Start your own thing”Tom Ford: “I am really a loner after all”Tom Sachs: “Consumerism was a ritual”Tomas Maier: “It shouldn’t be about the product”Tony Hawk: “Finally they figured it out!”Tony Wheeler: “I want to try somewhere different”Tracee Ellis Ross: “Why not do it in a big way?”Trevor Paglen: “Your job is to learn how to see”Tye Sheridan: “You have to rise to the moment”Umit Benan: “I was losing my identity”Valentino: “I am somebody with taste, of course”Vanessa Beecroft: “I’m repulsed by pop culture”Vanessa Kirby: “Empathy is the job for an actor”Viggo Mortensen: “Experience should free you”Viktor & Rolf: “There's very little real glamour”Vincent Cassel: “Keep the mystery alive”Vineet Bhatia: “You have to question things”Wally Pfister: “I had to shift to storytelling”Wayne Coyne: “You get to be a bigger version of yourself”Wayne McGregor: “I see beauty in the dysfunctional”Werner Herzog: “Trust in my wild fantasies”Wes Anderson: “We are usually doing it one way”Whitney White: “Just keep expanding”Will Ferrell: “I am kind of boring to me”Will Goldfarb: “You’re just supposed to like it”Willem Dafoe: “You are not driving it”William Forsythe: “No one has any idea what really works”William Orbit: “I’m absolutely open”Willo Perron: “I never wanted to be very singular”Willy Vanderperre: “You have to constantly reinterpret”Wim Wenders: “Everything I loved I had to defend”Winy Maas: “Loyalty has its limits”Woody Harrelson: “I have hypnotized myself”Yann Martel: “You have to open yourself”Yann Tiersen: “Music is not language”Yngve Holen: “You can get what you want out of it”Yoann Lemoine: “I’m not there yet”Yohji Yamamoto: “People have started wasting fashion”Yoshihiro Imai: “Ego is not edible”Yotam Ottolenghi: “I am more of a conductor”Yukimi Nagano: “I don’t feel any pressure”Yves Béhar: “You can’t think selfishly about design”Zachary Quinto: “I have a different journey”