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Gena Rowlands is fabulous.
Stella McCartney is [my] big fan.
I never thought heroin was very chic.
I think the wrong things are kept private
My work is received more intelligently in Europe.
I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.
I have very healthy strong relationships with women.
I also met Dominique Sanda, who I always worshipped.
If I want to take a picture, I take it no matter what.
I won't show a picture where a person doesn't look beautiful.
If I do continue to do fashion, I would want to radicalise it.
I've been alone for about eight years and it doesn't bother me.
No place could be less sympathetic to my politics than America.
I start to paint my walls. And I'm heavily influenced by films.
I don't know if Yves St Laurent likes my work but Pierre Bergé does.
I did [heroin] maybe when I was 18 but I got over that pretty quickly.
The thing that drives me most crazy in the world is not to be believed.
My life there[in New York] was almost entirely about gay men for 30 years.
The camera is as much a part of my everyday life as talking or eating or sex.
I remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way they looked.
It's a hideous feeling to go round shopping and even feel like you are a freak.
I don't think I am going to do pictures which are anything like Renaissance art.
I just get inspired to take a picture by the beauty and vulnerability of my friends.
[John] Cassavetes, "Killing of a Chinese Booker", "Opening Night" are my favourites.
I also photographed Maggie Cheung - but these didn't develop into a friendship either.
I wasn't there [in U.S] when the city was bombed but it seems to have changed my friends.
My life is more important. At this point in my life I'm alone. I don't think about it a lot.
I don't think of Maria Schneider like idol anymore, because I worshipped her when I was young.
No Jews have our own guilt, that's why we have psychiatrists - the Jewish version of a priest.
Each time I spend with Stella McCartney, I like her better. So I was excited to be asked by her.
I don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better.
Now what I like is that other artists know my work and are interested in me or want to collaborate.
She has that kind of baby face, a very young face. So I was interested in working with Kate [Moss].
It's so rare to see a woman's sexuality, real female sexuality, either in the shows or in the clothes.
The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.
American magazines are becoming very patriotic beyond belief to the point that I can't live there any more.
I never courted that but it's nice when it's people you respect and they respect your work. It's thrilling.
I love all the Hollywood women. I saw all the films when I was a teenager. Jack Smith's "Flaming Creatures".
I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.
Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.
One of my assistants, a British man, says I should find a platform for [cosmetic industry]. Meanwhile I wear make-up.
Usually people just do their own work. But I want to deal with the place and what it means to show in a mental hospital.
I had my first museum showing of my slide show in Rotterdam, in 1983. I love Rotterdam. I love harbour cities in general.
I like Stella [McCartney] a lot - she's a very open and warm person. I don't particularly want to know about her background.
I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.
In Paris now, when I walk into stores and the shopgirls literally say to me every time, "We don't have anything in your size".
I'm very flattered when people I respect like my work. It's like a dream of a little kid when somebody I idolised likes my work.
The idea that a fashion photograph could make you cry doesn't happen. And I'm proud to say that my slideshows can make people cry.
One of the major things I really want to work on now is female rage because that's not dealt with at all - and I have a lot of it.
The main thing that I want to say is that I don't think women are at their most beautiful in their adolescence or in their early 20s.