An idea that is confident always looks masculine.

Anyone who is confident in themselves is much more stylish.

Every man should own a navy cashmere jacket with gold buttons, a grey suit, black shoes shoes for the city, brown shoes for elsewhere. Everything else should be simple and really well made.

The most uninteresting thing for me is when somebody thinks too much about how they put themselves together.

I feel like jeans and a T-shirt have become Establishment. Everyone’s dressed down. So actually putting on a jacket is the anti-­Establishment stance.

If you’re constantly open to inspiration, it will come to you. The worst thing a man can do is pressure himself into an idea.

I don’t understand why everybody thinks that dressing casually is so much more comfortable. I’m as comfortable in a suit as I am in anything else.

It is so important to be really true to yourself in design, and I am.

Men shouldn’t try too hard, or think about what they wear too much. I like when there’s something about a look that throws it off a little – perfection is really imperfect.

If you saw me every day, you would actually think I am wearing the exact same gray suit.

I was asked to design the tuxedo for Mr. Peanut. They're rebranding him. That was probably the most interesting request. I didn't spend a long time considering it.

Nationality isn't soul.

The appearance of the law must be upheld - especially when it's being broken.

Here in Los Angeles, school's out for summer. For thousands of school kids, this is the first week of summer vacation. And for thousands of parents, it's the first week of hell.

In my experience, the best directors I've worked with hired people for a purpose. They hire them with trust. There's not many notes. There's confidence and support.

Never put a razor inside your nose - even as a joke.

The heart needs not for its heaven much space, nor many stars therein, if only the star of love has arisen.

Cruel World has been my favourite track from Ultraviolence ever since I recorded it.

[Washington had won] a war for independence and then gone home. [He embodied] the legend of the Roman who returned to his plow after saving his country.

Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.

At the level at which I work with people, their great talent is paired with great insecurity. Self-doubt is literally the twin of self-confidence. And I have to be there for both.