“Men like clothes they can wear to work and afterwards. They don't want...” — John Rocha Quote

Men like clothes they can wear to work and afterwards. They don't want things to be complicated.

I turned my hand to costume design a few years ago when I created the outfits for 'This Is the Sea,' with Richard Harris and Samantha Morton. It's a very different discipline to being a fashion designer, though - you have to rein in your own vision and work to a tight brief.

Fashion remains closest to my heart. I get genuinely excited by my collections - I never wanted to be a businessman.

I believe that IT is the way forward. Every other industry utilises IT, and I feel that fashion needs to use it more extensively to move forward.

Memories, impressions and emotions from the first 20 years on earth are most writers' main material; little that comes afterward is quite so rich and resonant.

There were just two of us women filmmakers at Sundance in '94, and there was no sense of camaraderie or welcoming - no fault of Sundance. And I took it really personally and it took me a long time to get over it. That was a part of my retreating afterwards. The other part was, I just couldn't get financing, and it was so frustrating.

I actually wanted to play the violin before I had polio, and then afterwards, there was no reason not to.

Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.