I still don't know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.
I must say, Gisele's [Bundhen] got some of the best hair I've ever touched.
Beauty shouldn't be taken too seriously. Life is stressful enough! Hair should be creative and crazy.
All hair is away from the face - there's no emotion and all of the personality is taken away. I envisioned the way a 'virtual girl' is drawn in a cartoon. Then I added these different colored extensions - white, red and black, which adds to the synthetic feeling of the hair. I used colors which looked most dramatic against each of the models' real hair. The different colors give you that pop of fakeness so we're not talking about reality. Like a futuristic princess.
It's hard to be shocking now. It's hard to challenge people because the Internet has allowed everyone to become much more worldly, much more visual. It's very hard to surprise people.
I'm not giving up on my work. I'm still trying to challenge people's aesthetics and myself.
I'm not saying that everything I do is always tasteful - and maybe it's not always the normal idea of beauty - but hopefully it's always an empowering idea.
We create an interior 'movie' in the reader's head through words on the page.
Mexican cinematographers Gabriel Figueroa and Emilio Fernandez were students of both Sergei Eisenstein and Toland. Their exteriors and lighting were gorgeous. And the films Ingmar Bergman did with Sven Nykvist were exceptional.
I hate you, Richard Wagner. . . but I hate you on my knees.
I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.