“I grew up in the countryside, and I was obsessed with horses and wildlife.”

My dad was born in Chicago in 1908… his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children – in the backroom all together – and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.

I love a star print. I always get a lurch if I see a nice one.

My earliest influences were Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent.

Ever since I was little I really loved boyish clothes – I had a real obsession with strict clothes, like uniforms. They really got me going.

I love the MLB app, because I’m a pretty obsessed baseball fan.

We are most of us too busy, too worried, too intent on proving ourselves right, too obsessed with ideas to stand and stare

I grew up 60 minutes way from Richmond, in Charlottesville, Virginia and, as a child, I was obsessed with the Civil War. I used to do re-enactments and all that stuff.

I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.

[Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.