Life:
If you're making a film, the one thing I've learned is you have to pick somebody really well-known to make it relevant.
Topics: Film, Relevant
My advice to first time filmmakers is believe in yourself and the message you want to give in the film you are making.
Topics: Believe, Giving, Advice
I think the most important is believing in yourself and being passionate about everything you do in life.
Topics: Believe, Thinking, Important
The link between Vreeland and Guggenheim is their mutual sense of reinvention and transformation. That made something click inside of me as I too reinvented myself when I began writing the book on Diana Vreeland .
Topics: Book, Writing, Links, Reinvention
The most challenging thing about this one was the vast amount of material we had at our disposal. We had a lot of media to go through - instead of fashion spreads, which informed The Eye Has To Travel, we had art, which was fantastic. I was spoiled by the access we had to these incredible archives and footage.
Topics: Fashion, Art, Eye
I learned how to make a documentary by having a good team around me. My editors (and co-writers)Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and Frédéric Tcheng were very helpful.
Topics: Team, Editors, Documentaries
Research is fundamental; finding as much as you can and never giving up. I love the research. It is my "precise time". Not just for interviews but of footage, photographs never seen before. It is a painstaking process that satisfies me. The research never ends. I was still researching while I was promoting the Diana Vreeland book. I love reading books and going to original sources.
Topics: Giving Up, Book, Reading
