Quotes

You learn to give up what's not working and surround yourself with things you love - not what's correct or proper.

I have my clothes made in Hong Kong, but I love Shangai Tang in New York.

When I'm the happiest, my desk is not neat. It has lots of pens and the books I love. It gets messy when I'm in the flow. So many houses are so neat.

I think of myself as the little girl Renoir painted with the watering can. I loved the garden colors.

I urge readers to experience things that they love and give up things that are not working.

I love people and care about them, and I felt I had a gift to cheer people up. If I could get into their homes and make their environment more attractive, they'll be happier, and it would be very rewarding for me.

We can finish a house, but never a home. Once you fall in love with a house, you find continual pleasures in fixing it up and making innovations that satisfy your creature's comforts.

I love Oprah to death.

I love '70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up.

I always loved bulbs, and I use light a lot in my shows. In my office in Paris, I have 300 bulbs.

I've always been a film lover - that's why I've always wanted to write music for films.

Some films that I love, I love them also because of the music. 'Vertigo,' for example, is a movie where the music is doing 70 percent of the job.

I'm being offered great movies by great directors and that's what I love, that's what I've dreamed to do, and that's what I do all day long. So I have to do it.

I lived in the Caribbean when I was a teenager, so I learned about Salsa and Cha-Cha and all these Latin Afro-Cuban music like Gillespie and Duke Ellington, also bridged with Jazz. But my mother is Greek, and so I've also listened a lot to Greek music. And through the years to Balcanic music to Arabic music because my father loved music from Egypt.

I've loved Japanese culture for a long, long time, from doing martial arts, to the block prints, to the music. It's a country that I love, and a culture that I love.

It could be sci-fi, love story, historical drama what counts for me is the fact that they're made by great directors with a great point of view who bring the audience to be elevated and at the same time entertained. That's what cinema is.

I remember my sisters, they loved a movie called 'The Naked Island.' And the flute was actually playing the main theme. A Japanese movie. A beautiful movie from 1961. I remember hearing this music with a flute many, many times a day at home.

You do movies because you love movies and you write music because you love writing music, and sometimes there's this magic combination.

I've always loved mixing Middle Eastern instruments into a classical orchestra.

I've scored all the movies that Jacques Audiard has directed. It's a long love story between us, trying to find a voice that would belong to his films only.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

I love London. I came here to discover something different. It's a great city; I like how people think here.

I love good flowing football where the whole team is engaged.

I love Lyon and have only known Lyon, so obviously, it will be a big change if I do go, but a change that I am ready for and one that will be good for me and my career. It would be the end of one life and the start of another exciting one.