Interview DirectoryCategoryAll InterviewsArchitectureArtBusinessDanceFashionFilmFoodLiteratureMusicSportsTagsShow AllActorFilm DirectorHollywood IconsArtistSingerSongwriterScreenwriterAll InterviewsArchitectureArtBusinessDanceFashionFilmFoodLiteratureMusicSportsAll Tags:Show AllActorFilm DirectorHollywood IconsArtistSingerSongwriterScreenwriterSortingFirst nameLast nameMost recentEmerging MastersRolex is proud to support The Talks’ interview series about the cultural leaders of the future.AA Bronson: “I’m as fearless as I ever was”Aaron Sorkin: “That takes quite an ego”Abel Ferrara: “Does pain really teach you at all?”Adam Selman: “You’re not tied to your clothes”Adrien Brody: “I don’t have an option”Agustina San Martin: “I refuse to be one thing”Agyness Deyn: “I’ve mellowed out”Ai Weiwei: “The power designs itself to crush you”Al Pacino: “You can’t let your skin get too thick”Alan Menken: “Always be in love with the process”Albert Hammond Jr.: “I loved pushing that boundary”Albert Watson: “You never get that day back”Alejandro Iñárritu: “There is no way you can stop”Alex Honnold: “I’ve always been afraid of death”Alex Prager: “The idea is more important than anything”Alexander Ebert: “I was constantly in trouble”Alexander Ekman: “My view of success has changed”Alexander Payne: “I was far from the most talented”Alfie Allen: “It’s a form of torture every night”Alicia Keys: “It can’t be held back anymore”Alicia Vikander: “You just work through it”Alison Roman: “There’s no assignment”Allen Jones: “There’s nothing you can do”Amalia Dayan and Daniella Luxembourg: “It’s a personal quest”Amy Schumer: “That’s all I can ask for”Ana Roš: “It has to do with our own personality”André Saraiva: “The night is not a time, it's a place”Andrea Bocelli: “Life has been good to me”Andreas Deja: “Realism is the tough part”Andrew Garfield: “It’s a wound and a gift”Andrew Kevin Walker: “It still gave me nightmares”Andrew Wong: “Authenticity is fluid”Andro Wekua: “This is much more vulnerable”Ang Lee: “No one can see what’s coming”Angela Missoni: “You cannot live in the past”Anish Kapoor: “I have nothing to say”Anne Imhof: “You get bolder over time”Anne-Sophie Pic: “I faced the world of cuisine alone”Anthony Hopkins: “I see the lines, but I don’t care”Antoine Predock: “You keep the doorway open”Anton Corbijn: “My life is crazy, but it’s real love”Anton Yelchin: “There are no real answers”Antonio Banderas: “I live in the mystery”Ari Wegner: “It’s a really connected experience”Arlo Parks: “It feels like what I’m meant to do”Armando Iannucci: “There are no rules anymore”Arnaud Vaillant and Sébastien Meyer: “We want to give people an experience”Arturo Sandoval: “Focus on today”Audrey Tautou: “Who is the artist?”Axel Vervoordt: “I like evolution, not revolution”Ayesha Harruna Attah: “I’m in constant conversation”Barry Blitt: “A joke cuts through everything”Ben Kingsley: “I love the now, it is all we have”Ben van Berkel: “I want to stay experimental”Benedict Cumberbatch: “Your mind has the power to shape reality”Benjamin Bernheim: “This is an art form that is alive”Benjamin Millepied: “It’s not a matter of perfection”Benjamin Moser: “What is too much experience?”Benoît Astier de Villatte and Ivan Pericoli: “It’s a universe on its own”Bill Conti: “I’m writing it for emotional reaction”Bill Murray: “It’s more intake than output”Bill Nighy: “If everybody laughs, job done”Bjarke Ingels: “What is the standard solution not doing?”Björk: “There is a dramatic change in the air”Black Francis: “It doesn’t feel like anger”Bong Joon-ho: “The fear is hard to get rid of”Brendan Fraser: “I am not a stranger to that”Bret Easton Ellis: “You can’t lie anymore”Brian De Palma: “You have to battle”Brie Larson: “I hope my work makes people feel less alone”Brigitte Lacombe: “My entire life has been my work”Bronwyn Katz: “How I can extend the object’s life?”Bruce Dern: “You’ve got to keep accelerating”Bryan Adams: “It’s like mining for diamonds”Bryan Cranston: “I want to slow it down”Caleb Landry Jones: “Acting will always be strange to me”Calvin Klein: “I like the element of surprise”Carla Bruni: “The real matter is the people you love”Carla Sozzani: “You need generosity to do this”Carol Lim & Humberto Leon: “It’s all work and all fun”Catherine Deneuve: “You don’t tell the same stories”Catherine Opie: “If you don’t make it, it’s not out there”Catherine Wood: “How can we inhabit the image?”César Pelli: “One aspires for the sky”Chaitanya Tamhane: “I want to find my own language”Charles Yu: “Reality is taking notes from fiction”Charlie Hunnam: “I worry that I’ll get devoured”Charlie Kaufman: “I don’t believe in rules”Charlotte Rampling: “You have to be brave”Chiharu Shiota: “The fear is necessary”Chilly Gonzales: “I try to pull the curtain back”Chiwetel Ejiofor: “You’ve got to swing for the rafters”Chloë Sevigny: “I am leaning towards mysticism”Chloé Zhao: “I call it the age of innocence”Chris Cole: “Skateboarding had it all”Chris Pratt: “I’m not going to freak out”Christian Bale: “I like being responsible for myself”Christine Vachon: “You have to have the stomach for it”Christo: “It’s not a profession, it’s existence”Christoph Niemann: “I don’t need a big idea”Christoph Waltz: “It has nothing to do with the job”Christopher Kane: “You can’t just put your head down”Christopher Nolan: “I did not intend any message”Christopher Walken: “That’s it, it’s over”Chuck Palahniuk: “You can’t just be a spectator”Clare Smyth: “You’re always storing things”Claude Chabrol: “There’s nothing original in my movies”Claudia Comte: “It’s never-ending once you start”Claudia Fleming: “I am out here on a limb”Clive Davis: “You’ve got to earn it”Coco Capitán: “We have gone to the other extreme”Coco Mellors: “You have to be present in the process”Colin Farrell: “I don’t think parenthood changes you”Colin Firth: “It sounds awfully spoiled, but I’ll take it”Colleen Atwood: “You want them to resonate”Colman Domingo: “That was enough for me”Colson Whitehead: “All our former selves are still there”Cosey Fanni Tutti: “It’s like a metamorphosis”Craig Green: “Keep making that weird stuff”Craig Roberts: “Nobody knows what’s going on”Curtis ‘50 Cent’ Jackson: “Money is freedom”Da’Vine Joy Randolph: “I want a continuous development”Daisuke Nakazawa: “You need to work for what you want”Damien Jalet: “It’s a leap of faith”Dan Barber: “Tension is resolved through flavor”Daniel Arsham: “It can take years to get there”Daniel Boulud: “There was such camaraderie”Daniel Humm: “This is enough”Daniel Kaluuya: “Making it is not impossible”Daniel Libeskind: “I never had a goal”Daniel Radcliffe: “I’ve released a lot of the pressure”Danny DeVito: “You’ve gotta go in all the way”Danny Elfman: “I’m wired in this way”Darren Aronofsky: “I wish I could be more manipulative”David Bailey: “How are you going to cross the road?”David Byrne: “We did okay”David Chipperfield: “There is no defining moment”David Doubilet: “My favorite picture is the one I haven’t taken”David J. Peterson: “Does it fit the culture?”David LaChapelle: “Everything was dramatic”David Lynch: “Stories should have the suffering”David Newman: “You’re bonded to it”David Oyelowo: “You are not the center”David Sedaris: “What do I write about now?”David Shrigley: “There is room for everything”Davis Guggenheim: “I want to keep breaking the rules”Dean and Dan Caten: “We try it all on”Debbie Harry: “The music speaks for itself”Deborah L. Scott: “The heart of it is always the same”Deborah Landau: “The familiar is made strange again”Deborah Landis: “Costumes are talismans”Denise Gough: “It feels like I need to hold back”Dennis Hopper: “I thought I had power”Dennis Lehane: “It’s a question of interest”Dennis Muren: “There’s a magic to it”Dennis Paphitis: “Life without some excess, forget it”Denzel Curry: “I have no regrets”Denzel Washington: “I don't think there is a system”Diane Kruger: “Who needs to be told what to think?”Diane Lane: “I try not to draw attention to myself”Dieuveil Malonga: “Food has no borders”Dimore Studio: “We try and hit all of the senses”Dominique Lévy: “You need to constantly refill”Don Cheadle: “Movies are not attempting to educate you”Don Winslow: “I like being scorned”Douglas Gordon: “You pull yourself up and you push it out”Dries Van Noten: “I want to show reality”Dwayne Johnson: “It comes with the game”Ebecho Muslimova: “Making art is not a pleasant feeling”Ebon Moss-Bachrach: “That’s a beautiful gauntlet”Ed Viesturs: “Push yourself to another level”Edgar Wright: “It becomes a bit like alchemy”Edward Berger: “All it takes is a good script”Edward Norton: “It’s about balance”Elena Arzak: “We need to be open to change”Elena Reygadas: “We’ve found the balance”Elijah Wood: “Every film has its own part to play”Elisabeth Moss: “Truth is stranger than fiction”Elizabeth Olsen: “I just had to step it up”Elizabeth Peyton: “History is contained within people”Ellen Kuras: “I’ve always worked in my mind’s eye”Elmgreen & Dragset: “It’s time to change”Elvis Costello: “I didn’t have some big blueprint”Emile Hirsch: “That’s why I am the way I am”Emma Stone: “Anxiety in its essence is fear”Erdem Moralioglu: “She’s so many different people”Eric Ripert: “Anger is a weakness”Eric Roth: “Screenwriting is a bastardized form of art”Eric Wahlforss: “We had nothing else”Erik Spiekermann: “A good concept will survive forever”Erwin Wurm: “It only exists at this one time”Ethan Hawke: “I wonder if I’m up to the task”Eva Fàbregas: “My sculptures are endlessly becoming”Fabien Baron: “We’ve just seen the beginning”Fana Hues: “It feels like completion”Federico Marchetti: “You cannot be a follower”Ferdinando Cito Filomarino: “It was a different type of mission”Ferran Adrià: “Tastes change”Florian Hoffmeister: “That’s the birthplace of the visual”Flume: “I’ve started to put life as a priority”Flying Lotus: “Music wasn’t a reality for me”Francesco Clemente: “Making art is to time-travel”Francine Houben: “What’s most important is the senses”Francis Ford Coppola: “It’s a devastating decision”Francis Kéré: “There’s an element of fantasy”Francis Mallmann: “Human beings need contradictions”François Ozon: “I don't suffer”Frank Langella: “I couldn’t look a girl in the eye”Frédéric Malle: “Something had to change”Freida Pinto: “If you're bothered, change the channel”Futura: “Artists have got to stop compromising”Gab Bois: “If it’s yours, it’ll come”Gabriel Massan: “Anything is possible”Gabriel Orozco: “I try to be disappointing”Gabriela Garcia: “There are pieces of me in everything”Gael García Bernal: “Growing up is such a gift”Gaetano Pesce: “The future is a beautiful time”Garance Doré: “I want to keep the distance”Gareth Pugh: “I like that I feel out of place”Garry Kasparov: “There’s no more room for bluffs”Gary Player: “I have no intention of slowing down”Gary Simmons: “You want to create questions”Genesis Owusu: “I’ve always known who I am”Geoffrey Rush: “Why have we become this way?”Georg Baselitz: “The good things will never cause anyone to look”George MacKay: “You can’t dream up something you haven’t felt”Gerhard Steidl: “I turn everything upside down”Gilbert & George: “We don’t do art for the few”Giorgio Armani: “We all need to step up”Giorgio Moroder: “I was always interested in the hits”Glenn Close: “My passion is exactly the same”Grimes: “I want to be the best”Guillermo del Toro: “I am not meta, I am really earnest”Gunner Stahl: “You can tell if it’s real or not”Gus Van Sant: “You always want it to be different”Guy Pearce: “Where’s my conviction?”Haider Ackermann: “I used to be quite dark”Hajime Sorayama: “Creating is my freedom”Hannelore Knuts: “This was only the introduction”Hans Ulrich Obrist: “I believe in generosity as a medium”Hans Zimmer: “You are forever in that dream world”Harry Benson: “I’m keeping their image alive”Helen Cammock: “I want to change whose stories are heard”Hélène Darroze: “Good taste is in my DNA”Henry Cavill: “We don’t play a perfect game at all times”Hilary Swank: “You’ve got to trust your instincts”Hildur Guðnadóttir: “That’s when things come alive”Ian McKellen: “The journey goes on”Ian Schrager: “It was like a lightning bolt”Idris Elba: “The process is like a jigsaw puzzle”Imran Amed: “There’s a new authenticity”Ini Archibong: “I have to stay spiritually in tune”Ira Glass: “All you can do is make work”Iris Apfel: “You can’t learn style”Iris van Herpen: “I try to stretch the boundaries”Irvine Welsh: “Failure is more interesting”Isabella Rossellini: “Things will come back”J.K. Simmons: “Good writing makes me crazy”Jack Nicholson: “I put on a good show”James Cameron: “All my movies are love stories”James Franco: “I do all my homework”James McAvoy: “I don’t feel entitled”James Mercer: “Everyone was too cool to care”Jamie Bell: “I get what I want out of it”Jan Lisiecki: “The music speaks for itself”Jane Birkin: “There was a sense of being totally free”Jane Campion: “It has to go beyond”Jared Leto: “Every film has changed my life”Jarvis Cocker: “It’s like seeing into the future”Jason Schwartzman: “I enter a weird mode”Jason Wu: “Taste is in the eye of the beholder”Javier Bardem: “My slate is clean”Jeff Bridges: “Life is my guru”Jeff Goldblum: “I can do this in a hundred ways”Jeff Mills: “You’re only limited by your imagination”Jennifer Lame: “I loved the puzzle of the process”Jesse Eisenberg: “I’m not being tricked”Jim Carrey: “There is no me”Jim Jarmusch: “What are they afraid of?”Jodie Foster: “We are in an era of identity searching”Joe Wright: “It’s a matter of feeling”Joel Edgerton: “I create my freedom around that”Joel Meyerowitz: “You have to let go of something”Jóhann Jóhannsson: “Does it speak simply and directly?”John C. Reilly: “We all owe a debt”John Hurt: “There’s not much work in it”John Malkovich: “I am not in any hurry”John Pawson: “It’s everything you need, but nothing extra”John Waters: “Stop blaming your parents”Johnny Marr: “Who cares about authentic?”Johnny Rotten: “I love chemical imbalances”Jon Batiste: “I’m a link in a chain”Jon Gray: “Home is where the heart is”Jon Landau: “I can’t do anything unless I’m all in”Jon Ronson: “I’m interested in hypocrisy”Jonathan Lethem: “Be a dark horse!”Jonathan Safran Foer: “You have to waste a lot to have a little”José Selgas and Lucía Cano: “There should be a why”Joseph Gordon-Levitt: “It hasn’t happened yet”Joshua Ramus: “I’m not saying that it’s easy”JR: “No one can own it”Jude Law: “It's not you”Judi Dench: “I have an irrational fear of boredom”Judy Chicago: “Get used to it!”Juergen Teller: “You know when the work is good”Julia Peyton-Jones: “You need that virtuous circle”Julian MacKay: “That’s just a part of me”Julian Schnabel: “I never thought of art as a career”Julianne Moore: “We want to feel something”Julie Delpy: “People should care about who they are”Juliette Binoche: “You have to be more intelligent”Justin Timberlake: “Be in the moment”Katharina Grosse: “I don’t see limits”Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall: “The stakes have changed”Kazuo Ishiguro: “I’ll take as long as I need”Kean Etro: “We are the outsiders”Keira Knightley: “It’s the joy of growing up”Ken Forkish: “It just drew me”Kenneth Branagh: “It’s not such a great leap”Kenneth Ize: “Clothes tell us about who we are”Kevin Kline: “It’s a different sort of thrill”Kevin MacDonald: “You know it when you feel it”Kiernan Shipka: “I was living those themes in my own ways”Kiki Smith: “I just try to follow it”Kiri Te Kanawa: “It’s coming from your heart”Kris Van Assche: “You swim in order not to drown”Kristin Scott Thomas: “You forget how much it hurts”Kyle Bell: “I can do this”Laird Hamilton: “You should be scared”Larry Clark: “Why can’t you show everything?”Lars Ulrich: “So far, so good”Laura Dern: “We have to evolve together”Lawrence Weiner: “There’s no secret in words”LeBron James: “The fame never got to me”Lee “Scratch” Perry: “I am that I am”Lee Mingwei: “We are not broken”Leo Villareal: “There’s no agenda”Leonardo DiCaprio: “I am a lot calmer now”Leonor Espinosa: “I’ve always been rebellious”Leslie Odom Jr.: “We have to make room for all of it”Liam Neeson: “I created my own luck”Lianne La Havas: “I don’t do it for anybody else”Liesl Tommy: “Let your instincts take over”Lily Gladstone: “You are constantly a role model”Lily James: “You’re at the mercy of circumstance”Lily King: “You don’t know until you start writing”Lina Ghotmeh: “Identity is never fixed”Lindsey Vonn: “Mind over matter”Liza Lou: “Survival is at the core of it”Lubomyr Melnyk: “It has to be lived”Luca Guadagnino: “I try to surrender to my evidences”Ludovico Einaudi: “It was like a ritual”Ludwig Göransson: “I’m building a puzzle”Lupita Nyong’o: “I have to transform who I am”Lyn Paolo: “I love creating those worlds”M. Night Shyamalan: “I’m who you want in there”M.I.A.: “I made it to where that actions begins”Ma Yansong: “It’s about the spirit behind it”Mads Mikkelsen: “That’s how we defined it”Magnus Nilsson: “It was something that I always knew”Mahershala Ali: “The stakes were always high”Maisie Schloss: “It’s so deeply my aesthetic”Maisie Williams: “I’ve learned to protect myself”Maja Lunde: “I never start with a message”Małgorzata Szumowska: “It’s so unpredictable”Manolo Blahnik: “You don’t have to show your status”Manu Buffara: “Simple things reconnect us with life”Marco Brambilla: “There’s too much going on”Margaret Howell: “The clothes become a part of you”Margo Jefferson: “Criticism demands authority”Marianne Elliott: “You’re there to change lives”Marina Abramović: “I've always been a soldier”Mario Sorrenti: “There has to be intimacy”Marion Cotillard: “My dream was simple”Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi: “Storytelling is what we do”Mark Bridges: “I’m there to satisfy the piece”Mark Duplass: “It’s a dog fight”Mark Ronson: “I’m very aware of my place in music”Mark Seliger: “Let’s do something special”Mark Wallinger: “A perfect mirror throws back everything”Marlee Matlin: “That’s what keeps me going”Martin Parr: “I don’t expect to change anyone’s mind”Martin Schoeller: “I don’t think you can capture a soul”Mary Katrantzou: “It’s impossible not to doubt”Massimo Bottura: “I’m not cooking to create good food”Matt Abergel: “I want people to come and eat it; that’s it!”Matt Damon: “These types of movies are going away”Matt Dillon: “There’s always something to look for”Matthew Libatique: “That’s not lost on me”Matty Healy: “Nostalgia is beautiful”Maurizio Cattelan: “Show them life”Max Richter: “I like to get to the essentials”Mel Ramos: “Why not be naked in public?”Melissa Leo: “Acting has given me a purpose”Meryl Streep: “I'm not always happy”Michael Ballhaus: “Nobody can hurt me”Michael Caine: “I don’t get the girl, I get the part”Michael Douglas: “Youth is wasted on the young”Michael Pitt: “Don’t give yourself an out”Michael Pollan: “We vote with our forks”Michael Shannon: “There’s no reward other than knowledge”Michel Comte: “We need to listen to nature”Michel Gondry: “I believe in Utopia”Mick Jagger: “Excess was the order of the day”Mick Rock: “I blame the name”Mike Tyson: “If I fought Mike Tyson I could beat him”Mila Kunis: “They build you up just to knock you down”Miles Aldridge: “You are trying to catch it”Milton Glaser: “We’re all in it together”Miranda July: “I am making more room in the world”Missy Mazzoli: “Struggle is part of the process”Moby: “I don’t want anything from music”Mona Hatoum: “It’s about shattering the familiar”Monica Bellucci: “I like to explore the dark side”Morgan Freeman: “Strive for pleasure and peace”Mr. Brainwash: “If I believe it, it’s art for me”Mykki Blanco: “I was in an existential place”Natacha Ramsay-Levi: “You have to push things further”Neil Young: “You have to break out of it”Nelly Furtado: “Let’s pull the mask off now”Newton Thomas Sigel: “I can close my eyes and see it”Nicholas Kirkwood: “You have to know your craft”Nick Cave: “I don’t think that people want to be like me”Nick Hornby: “You can wait forever for the muse”Nick Knight: “I commit with my heart and soul”Nick Mason: “No one owes anyone anything”Nick Offerman: “I have a pugilist in me”Nico Muhly: “Pick your battles”Nicola Formichetti: “There will be a backlash”Nicolas Cage: “Sometimes it’s good to be hated”Nicole Kidman: “You choose the path”Niki Nakayama: “Everything about me knows it”Nils Frahm: “Everything can be used for the music”Nina Compton: “That’s the way to bridge the gap”Noah Baumbach: “You can't get away from yourself”Noah Goldstein: “I’ve always trusted my taste”Noomi Rapace: “Embrace the cracks”Norman Jean Roy: “The camera used to carry this mystique”Ohad Naharin: “What is this something else?”Ólafur Arnalds: “It’s not the end of the journey”Olafur Eliasson: “Things go wrong and we celebrate it”Ole Scheeren: “How can we break the mold?”Oliver Stone: “I’m braced for disappointment”Olivia Colman: “It will always be a mystery”Olivia Wilde: “It lights you up”Olivier Rousteing: “You fight through the night”Owen Wilson: “You just go with it”Paloma Elsesser: “I’m living less fearfully”Paolo Roversi: “My life is full of pictures I didn’t take”Pat Steir: “I avoid struggle”Patti Smith: “Rock 'n roll belongs to the people”Paul Banks: “I feel like they’re evocative enough”Paul Feig: “Comedy is never going to go away”Paul Schrader: “That day is gone”Paul Smith: “I’m happy to talk to anybody”Peaches: “Every kind of art is a privilege”Pedro Almodóvar: “Keep it on the rails”Pelé: “My father and my mother closed the machine”Pelle Cass: “I never fabricate”Pete Souza: “You’re doing it every day, all day”Peter Blake: “I’ll never have to fall off the mountain”Peter Dinklage: “The fight is all”Peter Fonda: “I'll shoot first, right through the door.”Peter Hook: “A magic that people can tune in to”Peter Lindbergh: “Beauty has nothing to do with youth”Peter Saville: “I never had to answer to anyone”Petra Collins: “I know what it’s like to be there”Philip Selway: “Allow yourself to be in the moment”Philipp Mainzer: “It just depends on how you use it”Pía León: “It’s a session of gratitude for the earth”Pierre Bergé: “Yves died at the right time”Pierre Gagnaire: “We’re obsessed with the superficial”Pierre Hermé: “It comes from curiosity”Pusha T: “People can hear passion”Quentin Tarantino: “It’s a corrupted cinema”Rachel Kushner: “There’s this lens over life”Rachel Whiteread: “I can let anything happen”Raf Simons: “The process never stops”Ragnar Kjartansson: “I know how to hide my tracks”Ralph Fiennes: “One’s vanity is always there”Ralph Steadman: “The line becomes more aggressive”Rami Malek: “It was daunting to live up to that”Randall Goosby: “It’s not just notes on a page”Rashid Johnson: “I can do this?”Rebecca Hall: “People are still people”René Frank: “You need to take that risk”Renée Zellweger: “I try to concentrate on something true”Renzo Rosso: “We have gained respect”Richard Deacon: “A stop, but not a finish”Richard Dreyfuss: “I have achieved all my dreams”Richard Gere: “We are all in this together”Richard Saul Wurman: “My world is a lattice”Richie Hawtin: “I’m interested in man and machine”Rick Owens: “I never had that much to lose”Ricky Gervais: “The truth is more devastating than a lie”Ridley Scott: “You can't have a comfortable ride”Rita Ackermann: “Nothingness is such a vast concept”Rita Ora: “I didn't have the answers”Rob Marshall: “There’s nothing like it”Rob Reiner: “I believe in it”Robert Harris: “Power is of endless interest”Robert Longo: “I went back to the beginning”Robert Montgomery: “I tend to like the pathetic”Robert Pattinson: “Everyone wants you to be so vanilla”Robert Polidori: “Why is there a line?”Robert Rabensteiner: “It’s all related to dreams”Robert Richardson: “I try to be a chameleon”Robert Wilson: “It’s okay to get lost”Robin Wright: “We’re always compromising”Rodney Scott: “You’ve got to stay patient”Rodrigo Prieto: “It’s all about emphasizing emotions”Roger Waters: “We are on a knife’s edge”Róisín Murphy: “Everything became about music”Rolando Villazón: “It’s a liberating feeling”Roni Horn: “There’s nothing until there’s something”Rose Wylie: “If it works, it works”Rufus Wainwright: “I don’t preach”Russell Crowe: “I have a moral standard of my own”Ruth E. Carter: “We have to make it come to life”Ryan Gander: “It wants your attention”Ryan McGinley: “I am just so fascinated by the body”RZA: “I knew where to go”Saad Moosajee: “You have to resonate with it”Salman Rushdie: “The curse of an interesting life”Sam Harris: “Mindfulness is being divorced from its real potential”Sam Mendes: “No one is owed anything”Sam Raimi: “It’s done in earnestness”Sam Rockwell: “It’s just being there for the first time”Sandra Hüller: “These doors have opened”Sandy Powell: “This is where I want to stay”Saniyya Sidney: “This is what I want to do”Sarah Morris: “There is no outside”Sarah Paulson: “It’s the way you come up”Sarah Polley: “It felt so revolutionary”Sarah Silverman: “Usually I’m the idiot”Sarah Sze: “How do we breathe life into objects?”Sean Penn: “I wouldn’t trade it for anything”Sean Scully: “The poet was always in me”Sean Sherman: “There’s a lot to uncover”Seong-Jin Cho: “It’s an endless journey”Sergei Polunin: “It’s like being in the army”Seth MacFarlane: “There’s room for all”Sharon Eyal: “The story comes from inside the body”Sheila Atim: “This is who we are”Sheila Heti: “My life only changes when a book is done”Shirin Neshat: “You can’t demystify a myth”Shirley Manson: “I’m enough for me”Sienna Miller: “It’s always a dilemma”Simon de Pury: “Curiosity is my engine”Simon Starling: “The practice has its own momentum”Sofia Coppola: “Film is our family business”Sonny Rollins: “I’m part of the universal spirit”Sonya Yoncheva: “Art cannot be lost”Space Invader: “You own the city”Spike Lee: “I’m not a quitter”Stacy Martin: “The film saves me”Stefan Sagmeister: “Function alone is not doing it”Stefano Pilati: “I used to divide people”Stellan Skarsgård: “Yes Lars, I’ll be there”Stephen Frears: “Failure is where you learn”Steve Buscemi: “I don’t really think about emotions”Steve Carell: “It’s different every time”Steve McCurry: “It’s like hitting a drum”Steve McQueen: “It’s about what’s right, not what fits”Steve Schapiro: “It’s a question of how you see it”Steven Soderbergh: “I can’t reverse a trend”Stewart O’Nan: “It’s not just dots on a page”Stuart Vevers: “I enjoy a big shift”Studio KO: “As long as it feels honest”Sugar Ray Leonard: “Whatever is needed to win, I will do that”Sumayya Vally: “Architecture is an assertion of who we are”Susan Goldberg: “It’s about doing the right thing”Susan Sarandon: “Let’s hope it changes”Susanne Bier: “I never looked back”Syd: “I’m ready to move forward”Sylvia Earle: “Everything on earth connects”T.C. Boyle: “We are animals”Tadao Ando: “There is no such thing as creation from nothing”Tahar Rahim: “Why recreate when you can create?”Taika Waititi: “No idea is final”Tara Donovan: “I don’t map it at all”Tavi Gevinson: “What is this exclusivity protecting?”Terry Gilliam: “Things happen”Thaddaeus Ropac: “People are hungry for new art”The Chemical Brothers: “That feeling lives with you”The National: “At peace with the darkness”Thea Sharrock: “Deal with it and reflect on it afterwards”Thom Browne: “You need to have conviction”Thom Mayne: “They want you to be left or right”Thomas Demand: “Aesthetics are inevitable”Thomas Hirschhorn: “It is an emancipatory gesture”Thomas Hoepker: “No rehearsal, just one click”Thomas Joshua Cooper: “Preparation is all you can do”Thomas Struth: “Now you've made it”Tiler Peck: “I’ve always been a storyteller”Tim Raue: “I never saw myself as a talented chef”Tim Roth: “It was our turn now”Todd Haynes: “You have to be alone to be inspired”Todd Selby: “Start your own thing”Tom Ford: “I am really a loner after all”Tom Sachs: “Consumerism was a ritual”Tomas Maier: “It shouldn’t be about the product”Tony Hawk: “Finally they figured it out!”Tony Wheeler: “I want to try somewhere different”Tracee Ellis Ross: “Why not do it in a big way?”Trevor Paglen: “Your job is to learn how to see”Tricky: “I’m in people’s souls”Tye Sheridan: “You have to rise to the moment”Umit Benan: “I was losing my identity”Valentino: “I am somebody with taste, of course”Vanessa Beecroft: “I’m repulsed by pop culture”Vanessa Kirby: “Empathy is the job for an actor”Viggo Mortensen: “Experience should free you”Viktor & Rolf: “There's very little real glamour”Vincent Cassel: “Keep the mystery alive”Vineet Bhatia: “You have to question things”Wally Pfister: “I had to shift to storytelling”Wayne Coyne: “You get to be a bigger version of yourself”Wayne McGregor: “I see beauty in the dysfunctional”Werner Herzog: “Trust in my wild fantasies”Wes Anderson: “We are usually doing it one way”Whitney White: “Just keep expanding”Will Ferrell: “I am kind of boring to me”Will Goldfarb: “You’re just supposed to like it”Willem Dafoe: “You are not driving it”William Forsythe: “No one has any idea what really works”William Orbit: “I’m absolutely open”Willo Perron: “I never wanted to be very singular”Willy Vanderperre: “You have to constantly reinterpret”Wim Wenders: “Everything I loved I had to defend”Winy Maas: “Loyalty has its limits”Woody Harrelson: “I have hypnotized myself”Yann Martel: “You have to open yourself”Yann Tiersen: “Music is not language”Yngve Holen: “You can get what you want out of it”Yoann Lemoine: “I’m not there yet”Yohji Yamamoto: “People have started wasting fashion”Yoshihiro Imai: “Ego is not edible”Yotam Ottolenghi: “I am more of a conductor”Yukimi Nagano: “I don’t feel any pressure”Yves Béhar: “You can’t think selfishly about design”Zachary Quinto: “I have a different journey”Zakiya Dalila Harris: “That’s the essence of it”Emerging MastersThe Talks’ Emerging Masters is a series in partnership with Rolex featuring the extraordinary talents shaping the future of creativity.Life“Being creative and keeping your brain occupied is very sensible because if you don’t you die, slowly. Sometimes I feel tired and think I ought to give it up, I don’t want to just retire. I enjoy it all.”Anthony HopkinsWales, Actor“Writing itself should be so extreme, so wild, and so much fun that it doesn’t matter whether or not you ever sell the book.”Chuck PalahniukUS, Author“I never thought of art as a career. I thought it was more like a monastic practice. It is something that you do – you can't not do it. If I made money doing it, I would do it; if I didn't make any money, I would do it. Obviously I’m not perfect but the thing I am best at is painting.”Julian SchnabelUS, Artist“I don’t want to only do what I know how to do. I want to be pushed somewhere else.”Catherine DeneuveFrance, Actress“I was a soldier in Korea and I got into a situation where I knew I was going to die. The rest of my life I have lived every bloody moment from the moment I wake up until the time I go to sleep.”Michael CaineUK, Actor“Risks are very important to me. It’s the only thing that will define the next career move or else I’ll be plateauing. I’ll be completely stale if I don’t take risks. And that’s not just my career.”Freida PintoIndia, Actress“Failure is more interesting. Success only comes in one form. It doesn’t teach you anything. Failure kind of comes in all sorts of ways, and teaches you all sorts of things. You learn by failing.”Irvine WelshUK, Author“I really lacked confidence at the very beginning. At first I was quite intimidated! I wasn’t accepted in the kitchen initially, I wasn’t part of the system; the other chefs didn’t welcome me. But in the end, those experiences made all the difference. It freed me.”Anne-Sophie PicFrance, Chef“I don’t want to be pigeonholed — it’s important to keep evolving, experimenting and reinventing yourself, otherwise it’s like hitting a drum, the same note over and over again. I think you should want to change, to try different things.”Steve McCurryUS, Photographer“I was always trying to innovate; I don’t like repetition. Time is something that changes every moment, it’s never repetitive — I try to follow this example.”Gabriel OrozcoMexico, Artist“It’s been a lot harder than I thought it was going to be to make the films I really dream of making. It’s heartbreaking when that happens, but it’s all okay. It requires patience.”Ethan HawkeUS, Actor“Any kind of quest for achievement has some kind of a personal drive behind it. I'm sure some people would say that it's obviously about the ego, but on the other hand, it's not as if I'm competing against anybody. It's not as if I'm trying to outdo anybody. It's just me trying to do something to see if I can.”Alex HonnoldUS, Rock Climber“If people don’t like the pictures, I don’t care. To me, there’s only one point of view: that’s mine.”Harry BensonUK, Photographer“I’m doing things more personally than ever before because that’s what my project is based on, that’s who I am and I have never been this happy my whole life — but it was a long road to get here.”Umit BenanTurkey, Fashion Designer“I feel very lucky. There is luck behind me, there’s luck in front of me, there’s luck ahead of me. But that is a perspective that requires a lot of work. It doesn’t come naturally.”Jonathan Safran FoerUS, Author“I don’t want to be good. I want to be the best. Even in failing that, you’ll hit a higher mark than if you never tried.”GrimesCanada, Musician“I learned by doing. The rest is doing experiments and testing and not giving up. If something is not satisfying start again, turn everything upside down and find a new formula for printing. Everything is learning by doing.”Gerhard SteidlGermany, Publisher“Part of being a designer is to fail every day, to try things that don’t work out. In a way, every project fails every day until it succeeds! That’s what the iterative process of design is about. Timing in many ways is key.”Yves BéharSwitzerland, Industrial Designer“I think an ambition as a performer, and maybe even in life, is to become less afraid. Some boundaries are necessary of course and some are accepted, but the ones that I don’t want, I want to remove.”Willem DafoeUS, Actor“My work and my life are the same thing to me. I don’t have a life on one side and work on the other side. My entire life has been my work. I don’t have a family, I am by myself, I have made very strict choices.”Brigitte LacombeFrance, Photographer“The recognition of luck is extraordinarily important — as well as making the best of it and creating to the best of your capabilities on that one opportunity you’re given so that it doesn’t end up in the museum of errors.”Robert RichardsonUS, Cinematographer“In life it’s about opening yourself up. It’s about tapping into your instincts and your energies. I think I got very good at that. I have to be open and I have to be open to the possibilities.”Mick RockUK, Photographer“If you have to defend something that you like, it makes you to like it even more. My parents hated the comic strips, they hated rock ‘n’ roll, and when they found out what movies I was going to they also were against that. So everything I loved I had to defend.”Wim WendersGermany, Film Directorwim“If you are ambitious, you are running in a tunnel that never ends. You will always find something new to go after.”Curtis ‘50 Cent’ JacksonUS, Musician“Wherever any of us have been wounded, if we dive into what those wounds are, if we go down into and do the hard work within those wounds, we’ll actually find ourselves, we’ll find our real giftedness, a sincere, true giftedness.”Andrew GarfieldUK, Actor“The journey of an artist is a journey of discovery and some engagement with the nature of material, with bodily things and all that has led me to this place. I’m really interested in that as a process because the process moves you in directions that you couldn’t rationally put there.”Anish KapoorUK, Artist“There is something quite beautiful with the art thing, that you can only hold it back for so long and then you have to do it.”Douglas GordonUK, Artist“I think it’s so good to try new things and open the window and let some fresh air in and try to eliminate any regrets.”Diane LaneUS, Actress“To be an artist, you must start with a considerable drive; in my case it was a fierce madness, a wildness. I think that’s the mark of an artist, actually, that they are rebellious, unruly… And I was one of them myself.”Georg BaselitzGermany, Artist“I think you have to slow down a little bit. But I am just trying to make work; I am just out there making work. I take care of myself so that I can survive. I used to not take care of myself so well, but now I do.”Larry ClarkUS, Film Director“I work till the breath goes out of me, and that might be at one or two or even four or five (in the afternoon). The point is that you must work every day if you ever expect to let the vision take hold of you.”T.C. BoyleUS, Author“It’s easy to have inspiration and have a vision and an aesthetic, but if you don’t have the execution and you don’t get it out there properly and on time, it doesn’t matter. It’ll sink.”Rick OwensUS, Fashion Designer“I think the best you can do for yourself is let your subconscious drive you, instead of doing things because you want to achieve some sort of glory.”Luca GuadagninoItaly, Film Director“Art is something about everyday life. Art is about finding creativity in the normal gutter next to you. To see the potential in something where there is no potential is often where art or creativity is a great tool. It’s about making the impossible possible.”Olafur EliassonDenmark, Artist“I would say that a strong work ethic is a vital ingredient for success. That’s something I was born with, I’m convinced of it; it was nothing that I acquired. If you take on anything, you try to do it your best.”Clive DavisUS, Record Producer“I’ve been through some incredibly tough times in my career but I persevered and came out the other side. And that teaches you strength, how to handle being put under pressure. Experience is a big thing — just knowing that you can pull yourself back up again.”Clare SmythUK, Chef“You better make every moment count. Live your life now; start in the morning. You mustn’t sit around waiting to die.”Michael CaineUK, Actor“You’re always looking for a second chance. You’re always looking to do a little bit better than you did the last time. And you hope that the readers will stay with you.”Stewart O’NanUS, Author“The only thing that you have to be very sure of is that nothing can go wrong. You can’t get in the way of the whole thing by messing it up with great ideas or smart moves. Absolute trust is, I think, the crucial ingredient.”Katharina GrosseGermany, Artist“I don’t regret anything. I feel that I’ve made what I would call mistakes. But everything you do is a part of you. And you get something from it. The idea and excitement of being in these situations and places — they are more than just memories, they inform your life.”Al PacinoUS, Actor