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Inspirational Conversations

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Aaron Sorkin“That takes quite an ego”

Adam Selman

Adam Selman“You’re not tied to your clothes”

Agyness Deyn

Agyness Deyn“I’ve mellowed out”

Al Pacino

Al Pacino“You can’t let your skin get too thick”

Albert Watson“You never get that day back”

Albert Hammond Jr.

Albert Hammond Jr.“I loved pushing that boundary”

Alejandro Iñárritu

Alejandro Iñárritu“There is no way you can stop”

Alex Honnold

Alex Honnold“I’ve always been afraid of death”

Alexander Payne

Alexander Payne“I was far from the most talented”

Alexander Ebert

Alexander Ebert“I was constantly in trouble”

Alfie Allen

Alfie Allen“It’s a form of torture every night”

Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold“I'm not hammering at it like a nail”

Alicia Keys

Alicia Keys“It can’t be held back anymore”

Alicia Vikander

Alicia Vikander“You just work through it”

Allen Jones“There’s nothing you can do”

Amalia Dayan and Daniella Luxembourg

Amalia Dayan and Daniella Luxembourg“It’s a personal quest”

Amy Schumer

Amy Schumer“That’s all I can ask for”

Ana Roš

Ana Roš“It has to do with our own personality”

André Saraiva“The night is not a time, it's a place”

Andrew Garfield

Andrew Garfield“It’s a wound and a gift”

Andrew Kevin Walker

Andrew Kevin Walker“It still gave me nightmares”

Ang Lee

Ang Lee“No one can see what’s coming”

Angela Missoni

Angela Missoni“You cannot live in the past”

Anish Kapoor

Anish Kapoor“I have nothing to say”

Anne-Sophie Pic

Anne-Sophie Pic“I faced the world of cuisine alone”

Anthony Hopkins

Anthony Hopkins“I see the lines, but I don’t care”

Antoine Predock

Antoine Predock“You keep the doorway open”

Anton Yelchin

Anton Yelchin“There are no real answers”

Anton Corbijn

Anton Corbijn“My life is crazy, but it’s real love”

Antonio Banderas

Antonio Banderas“I live in the mystery”

Armando Iannucci

Armando Iannucci“There are no rules anymore”

Audrey Tautou

Audrey Tautou“Who is the artist?”

Barry Blitt

Barry Blitt“A joke cuts through everything”

Ben Kingsley

Ben Kingsley“I love the now, it is all we have”

Ben van Berkel

Ben van Berkel“I want to stay experimental”

Benedict Cumberbatch

Benedict Cumberbatch“Your mind has the power to shape reality”

Benjamin Millepied

Benjamin Millepied“It’s not a matter of perfection”

Benjamin Moser

Benjamin Moser“What is too much experience?”

Bill Murray

Bill Murray“I’m not one of those guys”

Bill Nighy

Bill Nighy“If everybody laughs, job done”

Bill Conti“I’m writing it for emotional reaction”

Bjarke Ingels

Bjarke Ingels“What is the standard solution not doing?”

Björk

Björk“There is a dramatic change in the air”

Black Francis

Black Francis“It doesn’t feel like anger”

Bong Joon-ho

Bong Joon-ho“The fear is hard to get rid of”

Bret Easton Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis“You can’t lie anymore”

Brian De Palma

Brian De Palma“You have to battle”

Brie Larson

Brie Larson“I hope my work makes people feel less alone”

Brigitte Lacombe

Brigitte Lacombe“My entire life has been my work”

Bruce Dern“You’ve got to keep accelerating”

Bryan Cranston

Bryan Cranston“I want to slow it down”

Calvin Klein

Calvin Klein“I like the element of surprise”

Carla Sozzani

Carla Sozzani“You need generosity to do this”

Carol Lim & Humberto Leon

Carol Lim & Humberto Leon“It’s all work and all fun”

Catherine Deneuve

Catherine Deneuve“You don’t tell the same stories”

César Pelli“One aspires for the sky”

Charlie Hunnam

Charlie Hunnam“I worry that I’ll get devoured”

Charlie Kaufman

Charlie Kaufman“I don’t believe in rules”

Charlotte Rampling

Charlotte Rampling“You have to be brave”

Chiharu Shiota

Chiharu Shiota“The fear is necessary”

Chilly Gonzales

Chilly Gonzales“I try to pull the curtain back”

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Chiwetel Ejiofor“You’ve got to swing for the rafters”

Chloë Sevigny

Chloë Sevigny“I am leaning towards mysticism”

Chris Cole

Chris Cole“Skateboarding had it all”

Chris Pratt

Chris Pratt“I’m not going to freak out”

Christian Bale

Christian Bale“I like being responsible for myself”

Christine Vachon

Christine Vachon“You have to have the stomach for it”

Christo“It’s not a profession, it’s existence”

Christoph Niemann

Christoph Niemann“I don’t need a big idea”

Christoph Waltz

Christoph Waltz“It has nothing to do with the job”

Christopher Walken

Christopher Walken“That’s it, it’s over”

Christopher Kane

Christopher Kane“You can’t just put your head down”

Chuck Palahniuk

Chuck Palahniuk“You can’t just be a spectator”

Clare Smyth

Clare Smyth“You’re always storing things”

Claude Chabrol“There’s nothing original in my movies”

Clive Davis“You’ve got to earn it”

Coco Capitán

Coco Capitán“We have gone to the other extreme”

Colin Firth“It sounds awfully spoiled, but I’ll take it”

Colin Farrell

Colin Farrell“I don’t think parenthood changes you”

Colleen Atwood

Colleen Atwood“You want them to resonate”

Craig Green

Craig Green“Keep making that weird stuff”

Craig Roberts

Craig Roberts“Nobody knows what’s going on”

Curtis ‘50 Cent’ Jackson

Curtis ‘50 Cent’ Jackson“Money is freedom”

Daisuke Nakazawa

Daisuke Nakazawa“You need to work for what you want”

Dan Barber“Tension is resolved through flavor”

Daniel Libeskind

Daniel Libeskind“I never had a goal”

Daniel Humm

Daniel Humm“This is enough”

Daniel Radcliffe

Daniel Radcliffe“I’ve released a lot of the pressure”

Daniel Boulud

Daniel Boulud“There was such camaraderie”

Danny DeVito

Danny DeVito“You’ve gotta go in all the way”

Darren Aronofsky

Darren Aronofsky“I wish I could be more manipulative”

David Oyelowo

David Oyelowo“You are not the center”

David Bailey

David Bailey“How are you going to cross the road?”

David Sedaris“What do I write about now?”

David Byrne

David Byrne“We did okay”

David Shrigley“There is room for everything”

David LaChapelle

David LaChapelle“Everything was dramatic”

David Chipperfield

David Chipperfield“There is no defining moment”

David Lynch

David Lynch“Stories should have the suffering”

David J. Peterson

David J. Peterson“Does it fit the culture?”

Dean and Dan Caten

Dean and Dan Caten“We try it all on”

Deborah Landau“The familiar is made strange again”

Denise Gough

Denise Gough“It feels like I need to hold back”

Dennis Lehane

Dennis Lehane“It’s a question of interest”

Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper“I thought I had power”

Dennis Paphitis

Dennis Paphitis“Life without some excess, forget it”

Denzel Washington

Denzel Washington“I don't think there is a system”

Diane Lane

Diane Lane“I try not to draw attention to myself”

Diane Kruger

Diane Kruger“Who needs to be told what to think?”

Dominique Lévy

Dominique Lévy“You need to constantly refill”

Don Winslow

Don Winslow“I like being scorned”

Don Cheadle

Don Cheadle“Movies are not attempting to educate you”

Douglas Gordon

Douglas Gordon“You pull yourself up and you push it out”

Dries Van Noten

Dries Van Noten“I want to show reality”

Edward Norton

Edward Norton“It’s about balance”

Elisabeth Moss

Elisabeth Moss“Truth is stranger than fiction”

Elizabeth Peyton

Elizabeth Peyton“History is contained within people”

Ellen Kuras

Ellen Kuras“I’ve always worked in my mind’s eye”

Emma Stone“Anxiety in its essence is fear”

Erdem Moralioglu

Erdem Moralioglu“She’s so many different people”

Eric Wahlforss

Eric Wahlforss“We had nothing else”

Eric Ripert

Eric Ripert“Anger is a weakness”

Eric Roth

Eric Roth“Screenwriting is a bastardized form of art”

Erik Spiekermann

Erik Spiekermann“A good concept will survive forever”

Erwin Wurm

Erwin Wurm“It only exists at this one time”

Ethan Hawke

Ethan Hawke“I wonder if I’m up to the task”

Fabien Baron“We’ve just seen the beginning”

Ferran Adrià

Ferran Adrià“Tastes change”

Flying Lotus

Flying Lotus“Music wasn’t a reality for me”

Francesco Clemente

Francesco Clemente“Making art is to time-travel”

Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola“It’s a devastating decision”

Francis Mallmann

Francis Mallmann“Human beings need contradictions”

Francis Kéré

Francis Kéré“There’s an element of fantasy”

François Ozon

François Ozon“I don't suffer”

Frank Langella“I couldn’t look a girl in the eye”

Frédéric Malle

Frédéric Malle“Something had to change”

Freida Pinto

Freida Pinto“If you're bothered, change the channel”

Gabriel Orozco“I try to be disappointing”

Gaetano Pesce“The future is a beautiful time”

Garance Doré

Garance Doré“I want to keep the distance”

Gareth Pugh“I like that I feel out of place”

Garry Kasparov

Garry Kasparov“There’s no more room for bluffs”

Geoffrey Rush

Geoffrey Rush“Why have we become this way?”

Georg Baselitz

Georg Baselitz“The good things will never cause anyone to look”

George MacKay

George MacKay“You can’t dream up something you haven’t felt”

Gerhard Steidl

Gerhard Steidl“I turn everything upside down”

Gilbert & George

Gilbert & George“We don’t do art for the few”

Giorgio Armani

Giorgio Armani“We all need to step up”

Giorgio Moroder

Giorgio Moroder“I was always interested in the hits”

Grimes

Grimes“I want to be the best”

Guillermo del Toro

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

Gus Van Sant“You always want it to be different”

Guy Pearce“Where’s my conviction?”

Haider Ackermann

Haider Ackermann“I used to be quite dark”

Hannelore Knuts

Hannelore Knuts“This was only the introduction”

Hans Zimmer

Hans Zimmer“You are forever in that dream world”

Harry Benson

Harry Benson“I’m keeping their image alive”

Hilary Swank

Hilary Swank“You’ve got to trust your instincts”

Ian McKellen

Ian McKellen“The journey goes on”

Ian Schrager

Ian Schrager“It was like a lightning bolt”

Imran Amed

Imran Amed“There’s a new authenticity”

Ira Glass

Ira Glass“All you can do is make work”

Iris Apfel“You can’t learn style”

Iris van Herpen

Iris van Herpen“I try to stretch the boundaries”

Irvine Welsh“Failure is more interesting”

Isabella Rossellini

Isabella Rossellini“Things will come back”

J.K. Simmons

J.K. Simmons“Good writing makes me crazy”

Jack Nicholson

Jack Nicholson“I put on a good show”

James Franco“I do all my homework”

James McAvoy

James McAvoy“I don’t feel entitled”

James Mercer

James Mercer“Everyone was too cool to care”

James Cameron

James Cameron“All my movies are love stories”

Jason Schwartzman

Jason Schwartzman“I enter a weird mode”

Jason Wu

Jason Wu“Taste is in the eye of the beholder”

Javier Bardem“My slate is clean”

Jeff Bridges

Jeff Bridges“Life is my guru”

Jeff Goldblum

Jeff Goldblum“I can do this in a hundred ways”

Jeff Mills

Jeff Mills“You’re only limited by your imagination”

Jesse Eisenberg

Jesse Eisenberg“I’m not being tricked”

Jessica Chastain

Jessica Chastain“It’s not a sprint”

Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey“There is no me”

Jim Jarmusch“What are they afraid of?”

Jodie Foster

Jodie Foster“We are in an era of identity searching”

Joel Edgerton

Joel Edgerton“I create my freedom around that”

Jóhann Jóhannsson

Jóhann Jóhannsson“Does it speak simply and directly?”

John Malkovich

John Malkovich“I’ve had a few, but too few to mention”

John Hurt

John Hurt“There’s not much work in it”

John Waters“Stop blaming your parents”

John C. Reilly

John C. Reilly“We all owe a debt”

Johnny Marr

Johnny Marr“Who cares about authentic?”

Johnny Rotten“I love chemical imbalances”

Jon Ronson

Jon Ronson“I’m interested in hypocrisy”

Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan Lethem“Be a dark horse!”

Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer“You have to waste a lot to have a little”

José Selgas and Lucía Cano

José Selgas and Lucía Cano“There should be a why”

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Joseph Gordon-Levitt“It hasn’t happened yet”

Joshua Ramus

Joshua Ramus“I’m not saying that it’s easy”

JR“No one can own it”

Jude Law

Jude Law“It's not you”

Judi Dench

Judi Dench“I have an irrational fear of boredom”

Judy Chicago

Judy Chicago“Get used to it!”

Juergen Teller“You know when the work is good”

Julia Peyton-Jones

Julia Peyton-Jones“You need that virtuous circle”

Julian Schnabel

Julian Schnabel“I never thought of art as a career”

Julianne Moore“We want to feel something”

Julie Delpy

Julie Delpy“People should care about who they are”

Juliette Binoche

Juliette Binoche“You have to be more intelligent”

Justin Timberlake

Justin Timberlake“Be in the moment”

Katharina Grosse

Katharina Grosse“I don’t see limits”

Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro“I’ll take as long as I need”

Kean Etro

Kean Etro“We are the outsiders”

Keira Knightley

Keira Knightley“It’s the joy of growing up”

Ken Forkish

Ken Forkish“It just drew me”

Kenneth Branagh

Kenneth Branagh“It’s not such a great leap”

Kevin Kline

Kevin Kline“It’s a different sort of thrill”

Kiki Smith

Kiki Smith“I just try to follow it”

Kris Van Assche

Kris Van Assche“You swim in order not to drown”

Kristin Scott Thomas

Kristin Scott Thomas“You forget how much it hurts”

Laird Hamilton

Laird Hamilton“You should be scared”

Larry Clark

Larry Clark“Why can’t you show everything?”

Lars Ulrich

Lars Ulrich“So far, so good”

Laura Dern

Laura Dern“We have to evolve together”

Lawrence Weiner

Lawrence Weiner“There’s no secret in words”

LeBron James

LeBron James“The fame never got to me”

Lee “Scratch” Perry

Lee “Scratch” Perry“I am that I am”

Leo Villareal

Leo Villareal“There’s no agenda”

Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo DiCaprio“I am a lot calmer now”

Lianne La Havas

Lianne La Havas“I don’t do it for anybody else”

Lily King

Lily King“You don’t know until you start writing”

Lily James

Lily James“You’re at the mercy of circumstance”

Liza Lou

Liza Lou“Survival is at the core of it”

Lubomyr Melnyk

Lubomyr Melnyk“It has to be lived”

Luca Guadagnino

Luca Guadagnino“I try to surrender to my evidences”

Ludwig Göransson

Ludwig Göransson“I’m building a puzzle”

M. Night Shyamalan

M. Night Shyamalan“I’m who you want in there”

M.I.A.“I made it to where that actions begins”

Ma Yansong

Ma Yansong“It’s about the spirit behind it”

Mahershala Ali

Mahershala Ali“The stakes were always high”

Maisie Williams

Maisie Williams“I’ve learned to protect myself”

Maja Lunde

Maja Lunde“I never start with a message”

Manolo Blahnik“You don’t have to show your status”

Marco Brambilla

Marco Brambilla“There’s too much going on”

Margo Jefferson

Margo Jefferson“Criticism demands authority”

Marianne Elliott

Marianne Elliott“You’re there to change lives”

Marina Abramović

Marina Abramović“I've always been a soldier”

Mario Sorrenti“There has to be intimacy”

Marion Cotillard

Marion Cotillard“My dream was simple”

Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi

Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi“Storytelling is what we do”

Mark Seliger

Mark Seliger“Let’s do something special”

Mark Wallinger

Mark Wallinger“A perfect mirror throws back everything”

Mark Ronson

Mark Ronson“I’m very aware of my place in music”

Mark Duplass

Mark Duplass“It’s a dog fight”

Martin Parr“I don’t expect to change anyone’s mind”

Martin Schoeller

Martin Schoeller“I don’t think you can capture a soul”

Mary Katrantzou

Mary Katrantzou“It’s impossible not to doubt”

Massimo Bottura

Massimo Bottura“I’m not cooking to create good food”

Matt Damon

Matt Damon“These types of movies are going away”

Matt Dillon

Matt Dillon“There’s always something to look for”

Matt Abergel

Matt Abergel“I want people to come and eat it; that’s it!”

Maurizio Cattelan

Maurizio Cattelan“Show them life”

Max Richter

Max Richter“I like to get to the essentials”

Mel Ramos

Mel Ramos“Why not be naked in public?”

Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep“I'm not always happy”

Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan“We vote with our forks”

Michael Douglas

Michael Douglas“Youth is wasted on the young”

Michael Pitt

Michael Pitt“Don’t give yourself an out”

Michael Ballhaus

Michael Ballhaus“Nobody can hurt me”

Michael Caine

Michael Caine“I don’t get the girl, I get the part”

Michel Gondry

Michel Gondry“I believe in Utopia”

Michel Comte

Michel Comte“We need to listen to nature”

Mick Jagger

Mick Jagger“Excess was the order of the day”

Mick Rock

Mick Rock“I blame the name”

Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson“If I fought Mike Tyson I could beat him”

Mila Kunis

Mila Kunis“They build you up just to knock you down”

Milton Glaser

Milton Glaser“We’re all in it together”

Moby

Moby“I don’t want anything from music”

Mona Hatoum

Mona Hatoum“It’s about shattering the familiar”

Monica Bellucci

Monica Bellucci“I like to explore the dark side”

Morgan Freeman“Strive for pleasure and peace”

Mr. Brainwash

Mr. Brainwash“If I believe it, it’s art for me”

Neil Young

Neil Young“You have to break out of it”

Nelly Furtado

Nelly Furtado“Let’s pull the mask off now”

Nicholas Kirkwood

Nicholas Kirkwood“You have to know your craft”

Nick Knight

Nick Knight“I commit with my heart and soul”

Nick Hornby

Nick Hornby“You can wait forever for the muse”

Nick Mason

Nick Mason“No one owes anyone anything”

Nick Cave

Nick Cave“I don’t think that people want to be like me”

Nick Offerman

Nick Offerman“I have a pugilist in me”

Nicola Formichetti

Nicola Formichetti“There will be a backlash”

Nicolas Cage“Sometimes it’s good to be hated”

Nicole Kidman

Nicole Kidman“You choose the path”

Niki Nakayama

Niki Nakayama“Everything about me knows it”

Nils Frahm

Nils Frahm“Everything can be used for the music”

Nina Compton

Nina Compton“That’s the way to bridge the gap”

Noah Baumbach

Noah Baumbach“You can't get away from yourself”

Noah Goldstein

Noah Goldstein“I’ve always trusted my taste”

Norman Jean Roy

Norman Jean Roy“The camera used to carry this mystique”

Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson“Things go wrong and we celebrate it”

Ólafur Arnalds

Ólafur Arnalds“It’s not the end of the journey”

Ole Scheeren

Ole Scheeren“How can we break the mold?”

Oliver Stone

Oliver Stone“I’m braced for disappointment”

Olivia Colman

Olivia Colman“It will always be a mystery”

Olivier Rousteing

Olivier Rousteing“You fight through the night”

Owen Wilson

Owen Wilson“You just go with it”

Paolo Roversi

Paolo Roversi“My life is full of pictures I didn’t take”

Pat Steir

Pat Steir“I avoid struggle”

Patti Smith

Patti Smith“Rock 'n roll belongs to the people”

Paul Smith

Paul Smith“I’m happy to talk to anybody”

Paul Banks

Paul Banks“I feel like they’re evocative enough”

Paul Schrader

Paul Schrader“That day is gone”

Pedro Almodóvar

Pedro Almodóvar“Keep it on the rails”

Pelé“My father and my mother closed the machine”

Pete Souza

Pete Souza“You’re doing it every day, all day”

Peter Hook

Peter Hook“A magic that people can tune in to”

Peter Lindbergh

Peter Lindbergh“Beauty has nothing to do with youth”

Peter Blake

Peter Blake“I’ll never have to fall off the mountain”

Peter Fonda

Peter Fonda“I'll shoot first, right through the door.”

Peter Dinklage“The fight is all”

Peter Saville

Peter Saville“I never had to answer to anyone”

Petra Collins

Petra Collins“I know what it’s like to be there”

Philipp Mainzer

Philipp Mainzer“It just depends on how you use it”

Pierre Bergé

Pierre Bergé“Yves died at the right time”

Pierre Gagnaire

Pierre Gagnaire“We’re obsessed with the superficial”

Pierre Hermé

Pierre Hermé“It comes from curiosity”

Pusha T

Pusha T“People can hear passion”

Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino“It’s a corrupted cinema”

Rachel Kushner

Rachel Kushner“There’s this lens over life”

Raf Simons

Raf Simons“The process never stops”

Ragnar Kjartansson

Ragnar Kjartansson“I know how to hide my tracks”

Ralph Steadman

Ralph Steadman“The line becomes more aggressive”

Ralph Fiennes“One’s vanity is always there”

Rami Malek

Rami Malek“It was daunting to live up to that”

Rashid Johnson

Rashid Johnson“I can do this?”

Rebecca Hall

Rebecca Hall“People are still people”

Renée Zellweger

Renée Zellweger“I try to concentrate on something true”

Renzo Rosso

Renzo Rosso“We have gained respect”

Richard Gere“We are all in this together”

Richard Deacon

Richard Deacon“A stop, but not a finish”

Richard Saul Wurman

Richard Saul Wurman“My world is a lattice”

Richie Hawtin“I’m interested in man and machine”

Rick Owens

Rick Owens“I never had that much to lose”

Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais“The truth is more devastating than a lie”

Ridley Scott“You can't have a comfortable ride”

Rita Ora

Rita Ora“I didn't have the answers”

Robert Wilson“It’s okay to get lost”

Robert Pattinson

Robert Pattinson“Everyone wants you to be so vanilla”

Robert Polidori

Robert Polidori“Why is there a line?”

Robert Rabensteiner

Robert Rabensteiner“It’s all related to dreams”

Robert Longo

Robert Longo“I went back to the beginning”

Robert Montgomery

Robert Montgomery“I tend to like the pathetic”

Robert Harris“Power is of endless interest”

Robert Richardson

Robert Richardson“I try to be a chameleon”

Robin Wright

Robin Wright“We’re always compromising”

Rodrigo Prieto

Rodrigo Prieto“It’s all about emphasizing emotions”

Roger Waters

Roger Waters“We are on a knife’s edge”

Róisín Murphy

Róisín Murphy“Everything became about music”

Rufus Wainwright

Rufus Wainwright“I don’t preach”

Russell Crowe

Russell Crowe“I have a moral standard of my own”

Ryan Gander

Ryan Gander“It wants your attention”

Ryan McGinley

Ryan McGinley“I am just so fascinated by the body”

Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie“The curse of an interesting life”

Sam Rockwell

Sam Rockwell“It’s just being there for the first time”

Sam Harris

Sam Harris“Mindfulness is being divorced from its real potential”

Sam Mendes

Sam Mendes“No one is owed anything”

Sarah Silverman

Sarah Silverman“Usually I’m the idiot”

Sarah Sze

Sarah Sze“How do we breathe life into objects?”

Sarah Morris

Sarah Morris“There is no outside”

Sean Scully

Sean Scully“The poet was always in me”

Sergei Polunin

Sergei Polunin“It’s like being in the army”

Sharon Eyal

Sharon Eyal“The story comes from inside the body”

Sheila Heti

Sheila Heti“My life only changes when a book is done”

Shirin Neshat

Shirin Neshat“You can’t demystify a myth”

Shirley Manson

Shirley Manson“I’m enough for me”

Sienna Miller

Sienna Miller“It’s always a dilemma”

Simon Starling

Simon Starling“The practice has its own momentum”

Sofia Coppola

Sofia Coppola“Film is our family business”

Space Invader

Space Invader“You own the city”

Spike Lee

Spike Lee“I’m not a quitter”

Stacy Martin“The film saves me”

Stefan Sagmeister

Stefan Sagmeister“Function alone is not doing it”

Stefano Pilati

Stefano Pilati“I used to divide people”

Stellan Skarsgård

Stellan Skarsgård“Yes Lars, I’ll be there”

Steve Buscemi

Steve Buscemi“I don’t really think about emotions”

Steve McCurry

Steve McCurry“It’s like hitting a drum”

Steve McQueen

Steve McQueen“It’s about what’s right, not what fits”

Steve Carell

Steve Carell“It’s different every time”

Steve Schapiro

Steve Schapiro“It’s a question of how you see it”

Stewart O’Nan

Stewart O’Nan“It’s not just dots on a page”

Stuart Vevers

Stuart Vevers“I enjoy a big shift”

Studio KO

Studio KO“As long as it feels honest”

Susan Goldberg

Susan Goldberg“It’s about doing the right thing”

Susan Sarandon

Susan Sarandon“Let’s hope it changes”

T.C. Boyle

T.C. Boyle“We are animals”

Taika Waititi

Taika Waititi“No idea is final”

Tara Donovan

Tara Donovan“I don’t map it at all”

Tavi Gevinson

Tavi Gevinson“What is this exclusivity protecting?”

Terry Gilliam“Things happen”

Thaddaeus Ropac

Thaddaeus Ropac“People are hungry for new art”

The National

The National“At peace with the darkness”

The Chemical Brothers

The Chemical Brothers“That feeling lives with you”

Thea Sharrock

Thea Sharrock“Deal with it and reflect on it afterwards”

Thom Mayne“They want you to be left or right”

Thom Browne

Thom Browne“You need to have conviction”

Thomas Demand

Thomas Demand“Aesthetics are inevitable”

Thomas Hirschhorn

Thomas Hirschhorn“It is an emancipatory gesture”

Thomas Struth

Thomas Struth“Now you've made it”

Thomas Hoepker

Thomas Hoepker“No rehearsal, just one click”

Thomas Joshua Cooper

Thomas Joshua Cooper“Preparation is all you can do”

Tim Raue

Tim Raue“I never saw myself as a talented chef”

Todd Haynes

Todd Haynes“You have to be alone to be inspired”

Todd Selby

Todd Selby“Start your own thing”

Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks“You get lazy making movies”

Tom Sachs

Tom Sachs“Consumerism was a ritual”

Tom Ford

Tom Ford“I am really a loner after all”

Tomas Maier

Tomas Maier“It shouldn’t be about the product”

Tony Hawk

Tony Hawk“Finally they figured it out!”

Tony Wheeler

Tony Wheeler“I want to try somewhere different”

Tracee Ellis Ross

Tracee Ellis Ross“Why not do it in a big way?”

Trevor Paglen

Trevor Paglen“Your job is to learn how to see”

Umit Benan

Umit Benan“I was losing my identity”

Valentino

Valentino“I am somebody with taste, of course”

Vanessa Kirby

Vanessa Kirby“Empathy is the job for an actor”

Vanessa Beecroft

Vanessa Beecroft“I’m repulsed by pop culture”

Viggo Mortensen

Viggo Mortensen“Experience should free you”

Viktor & Rolf

Viktor & Rolf“There's very little real glamour”

Vincent Cassel

Vincent Cassel“Keep the mystery alive”

Vineet Bhatia

Vineet Bhatia“You have to question things”

Wally Pfister

Wally Pfister“I had to shift to storytelling”

Wayne McGregor

Wayne McGregor“I see beauty in the dysfunctional”

Wayne Coyne

Wayne Coyne“You get to be a bigger version of yourself”

Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei“The power designs itself to crush you”

Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog“Trust in my wild fantasies”

Wes Anderson

Wes Anderson“We are usually doing it one way”

Will Goldfarb

Will Goldfarb“You’re just supposed to like it”

Will Ferrell

Will Ferrell“I am kind of boring to me”

Willem Dafoe

Willem Dafoe“You are not driving it”

William Forsythe

William Forsythe“No one has any idea what really works”

Willo Perron

Willo Perron“I never wanted to be very singular”

Willy Vanderperre

Willy Vanderperre“You have to constantly reinterpret”

Wim Wenders

Wim Wenders“Everything I loved I had to defend”

Winy Maas

Winy Maas“Loyalty has its limits”

Woody Harrelson

Woody Harrelson“I have hypnotized myself”

Yann Martel“You have to open yourself”

Yann Tiersen“Music is not language”

Yngve Holen

Yngve Holen“You can get what you want out of it”

Yoann Lemoine

Yoann Lemoine“I’m not there yet”

Yohji Yamamoto

Yohji Yamamoto“People have started wasting fashion”

Yukimi Nagano

Yukimi Nagano“I don’t feel any pressure”

Yves Béhar“You can’t think selfishly about design”

Zachary Quinto

Zachary Quinto“I have a different journey”