The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight... [Breadmaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel. that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

Thank God, I can look at a sunset now without having to think how to describe it

It's very important that when you have a designer like Marc Jacobs, who is a genius, you give him complete freedom.

I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record.

This is what the difference is between Hong Kong and Chinese cinema - Chinese cinema was made for their own communities. It was for propaganda. But Hong Kong made films to entertain, and they know how to communicate with international audiences.