A film should be somewhat personal. I think that whatever you create you have to be true to yourself and create something that feels right to you.
TOM FORDIn my adult life I’ve understood that if I put an enormous amount of love and honesty into something, usually that shows in the end.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.
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Glamour is something more than what you put on your body. It has to do with the way you carry yourself and the impact you have on others.
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If I was ever going to become a good designer, I had to leave America. My own culture was inhibiting me. Too much style in America is tacky. It’s looked down upon to be too stylish. Europeans, however, appreciate style.
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What is important is that we stop and realize, “Okay. This is fine. I can enjoy that. But what is really important, what I’m really going to take away with me from this life, is my connection with other people.
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I think people are sick of trends changing every six months – not because we’re tired of them, but just for the sake of change. There is so much junk in the world: junk TV, junk movies, all those junk magazines with the same people on the cover.
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At home, off-duty, I wear T-shirts from Fruit of the Loom – but I have them tailored.
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In another life I would love to be a cosmetic surgeon because it’s architectural. You know, you are trying to figure out where the seams go. Can I do it in one piece like Halston? Can you formaldehyde DNA?
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In my adult life I’ve understood that if I put an enormous amount of love and honesty into something, usually that shows in the end.
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I find I can get so much done between midnight and 4 a.m. Everything is quiet, no one is disturbing me, and if I go to bed then, I just lie awake thinking of ideas. They are very creative hours for me. One night a week I crash out, though.
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If I were straight and I were trying to seduce a woman, I could do it just by standing up at the table when she came back from the bathroom. It works. Every time I do that, all the straight men are sitting at the table and their wives are kicking them. “Look at that!” “You never do that for me!”
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The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.
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Fashion is everything. Art, music, furniture design, graphic design, hair, makeup, architecture, the way cars look – all those things go together to make a moment in time, and that’s what excites me.
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It’s hard not to be sexy in a pair of high heels.
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Time and silence are the most luxurious things today.
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If I had been a dog walker, I would have been the most successful dog walker in Paris.
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