"A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order."

"Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second."

"Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world."

"I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas."

"I really like to be able to have variety and to try different things - that's the beauty of fashion."

"I'm a master of heels. I'm used to them. I'm tiny, so I wear them all the time. Apart from to the beach. That would be slightly psycho. I'm over the top, but not that much yet."

"Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource."

"I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas."