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“You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.”
“Journalists never make it clear when you are joking.”
“I always look at people and think how I would cast them.”
“I'm not really one for regrets.”
“I don't feel very optimistic in London.”
“I don't think global warming is to do with us, I think it's a natural circle. I don't think a few Ferraris make that much difference.”
“I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.”
“I have always wanted to live in the present and never the past.”
“Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.”
“It always amazes me when people ask you to do something and then tell you how to do it.”
“In '73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn't make you feel relaxed... I managed to escape unscathed though, I'm pretty good at that.”
“John Parsons, the gay art director at 'Vogue,' really started my career.”
“The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.”
“In a way, a man's body is more beautiful than a woman's.”
“London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that changes everything in a city.”
“Kate Moss is the best thing since Jean Shrimpton, really.”
“I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.”
“I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough.”
“The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script.”
“Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.”