Tom Ford Quotes

I would say that Lucy, 'I Love Lucy,' she was my idol.

I do love the clothes on 'Mad Men' because my character has been so elegant and I would never have had access to these clothes. I think Janie Bryant is a costume designing genius. They'll call and tell me, 'It will only take an hour,' and I'm like, 'I will try on the whole truck!'

The success of I Love Lucy is something that happens only once in a lifetime, if you are fortunate enough to have it happen at all.

I love 'I Love Lucy,' and I have the DVD set of 'I Love Lucy.'

It takes a Bobby White to make a tired 90-year-old composer write a song about love.

The way we dress on 'Mad Men' is so associated with old photographs, with people's parents and grandparents.

It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s.

The best ideas are those that really affect me emotionally - those are the ones you never forget. You think to yourself, 'I want to write that book', for years; those are the ideas that I love to work with, and 'The Bone Garden' was one of them.

I don't think I've got an innate sense of style, but I guess I'm influenced by those I love and admire. You hope that you combine those influences in a way that becomes your own.

Inspiration can hit you in the head at any time in any context. It could happen in a conversation. Talking to someone at a party, you can get an idea. But you've got to remember those inspirations.

There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just 'works.' I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.

I try and borrow my mom's vintage stuff as much as she lets me - she has this amazing vintage Gucci that I love.

There's got to be something you want to tell and that's the engine which spurs all of the work you have to do in order to create the story, but you have to love some sort of nugget of what you're telling to be a filmmaker.

I have a handful of leather jackets, and I love them all. I think most men my age do, and it can be traced back to the Fonz and Danny Zuko.

I find inspiration in many places. Sometimes music gives me the kernel of a story. Sometimes it's dissatisfaction with the plot of a movie or a book that gets me thinking. Sometimes it's love of a movie or book.

I dressed like Leslie Caron as a teenager: soft school pleats, Peter Pan collars.

I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

One of my favorite books is 'Armadillo Rodeo', and I got the idea from traveling to Texas and seeing armadillos.

I've worked with lots of musicians - like Tina Turner - and I love when they go in front of the fitting mirror and do their thing, pose, dance. I love that moment!

Inspiration comes from everywhere. From life, observing people, etc. From movies and books you love. From research.

I love travelling, and most scripts have been written while I have been travelling.

I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.

Actually just recently I came up with that idea, watching the movie 'Legally Blonde' and I was like, 'Cool, that's something I want to do.'

I love it when I start a book that is so good that all I want to do is get back to my own writing, in a competitive way.