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