For me, it's very interesting to take one object and really dissect it to as many layers as possible.

My mother and grandmother... they were my first muses. The way they dressed and carried themselves was an education in elegance. They defined the word.

There's more depth to Lionel. What I am finding so interesting about playing him is there's all these different layers. I prefer playing Lionel because he's a human being.

You can never really go wrong if you take nature as an example.

To me, the word 'decadent' is so difficult to use; it's a very sensitive word, in a way.

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.