The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.
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With a bad script and even the best cast, the most you can hope for is to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse.
The gospel may not make a sow's ear into a silk purse, but it will make everybody better if they live it. I've tried it. It stands the test.
If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.
You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things.
Being a celebrity stylist, there are many tricks of the trade that I use in my house and with my clients.
I came from Bill Blass, where it was a well-oiled machine and if I said I needed a fabric, it was done. Now, I have to budget everything. I have to take on the role not just as a designer but a business. But I'm a glass half-full kind of guy.
I got a custom-made silk dress from a Chinese tailor for really cheap. I sketched it out on a piece of paper, and they took my measurements and made the dress for me in a day!
I don't like silk underwear. They don't do the job, you know?
When I was starting, there were wool mills in the U.S. that could make you anything. The U.S. used to produce the most beautiful cotton denim in the world. Now all that is gone.
I'm for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction.