Derek Jarman shared the responsibility for making the film. He didn't necessarily know what he wanted - he knew what he didn't want - but you had to keep coming up with stuff.

Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always feel like reliable signifiers to me.

Most of us live our whole lives without having an adventure to call our own.

It's a real comfort zone for me to feel alien.

How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?

I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.

This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing.

I'm really interested in the idea of long, long life and transformation and immortality.

I'm from the same planet as David Bowie.

I'm interested in that whole question of where we wear our identity and how can we see it.

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans

When I am with you, hours feel like seconds. When we are apart, days feel like years

I never was interested in being part of the fashion world - I just wanted to design shoes. I didn't even know Vogue existed when I was growing up. Vogue, what is that?

The technology's going to change, but what people want to read is going to be basically the same.

Divorce is one of the most stressful life events anyone goes through.

Success is the difference between where you are and where you could be

The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.

My husband and I are pretty good at leaving money alone until we need it for what we've saved it for.

I would not live alway; I ask not to stay Where storm after storm rises dark o'er the way.