I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's good to have fantasies and creative fantasies, especially.
I have a tendency to face my bad fantasies in my books.
It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.
I'm a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy.
I shall always be able to come up with new fantasies. As long as there are people walking around in the street, as long as I have books to read and windows to look out of, I'm not going to use them up.
I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.
I'm a massive daydreamer. I'm constantly lost within my own fantasies and my own thoughts personally, and I think maybe that is sort of represented in what we do for a living, the fact that we make believe everything and we escape into these other characters for a living.
I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.
I hired a publicist once I got cast in 'Passing Strange,' and one of the first conversations we had was about how I wanted to handle talking about my sexuality. I said, 'It's never been an issue for me. I want to talk about my work, but if something about myself relates to my work, of course I'll talk about it.'
I'm still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but that's just the way I am.
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