The Talks

Interviews with figures from pop culture: fashion, film, art, music.

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Just because you don’t have a burning passion for your job, does not automatically mean something is missing for you.

Christoph Waltz

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Composer Lubomyr Melnyk on performing: "The fingers and the pianist and the piano become one entity…"

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Inside the iconic Studio 54, photographed by Hasse Perrson. Read our interview with the club's founder Ian Schrager on The Talks.

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Artist Ryan Gander: "I think people really related to the mouse because it’s like an insecure character: it should be scared and want to run away, but it stays."

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Chef Anne-Sophie Pic: "With time comes pleasure: the pleasure of creating but also upholding the legacy that’s been passed down to me."

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Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall in France, photographed by Brigitte Lacombe. Read our interview with the photography icon on The Talks.

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New this week, English artist Ryan Gander: "Being an artist and making art are two entirely different things."

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Francis Ford Coppola on Apocalypse Now: "There had never been a film that dealt with the Vietnamese War and as I made the film, on its own, it became more and more surreal. It really wasn’t about war, it was about morality."

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Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh on being a good writer: "You’ve got to be prepared to get out and do stuff and look around and engage with people. You’ve got to engage your senses."

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Fashion muse Daphne Guinness: "I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth. But that silver spoon I choked on a long time ago." 

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You don’t have to be a full on liar. But partial fakery is sometimes a necessity in life.

Robin Wright

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Actor Michael Douglas, pictured here in Falling Down (1993): "My father came to my first plays in college and told me I was terrible. He was very relieved because he thought he wouldn't have to worry about me becoming an actor anymore."

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A young Tavi Gevinson, photographed in her bedroom by Petra Collins. Read talks with both in our fashion section.

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New this week, filmmaking legend Francis Ford Coppola: “There were people who said Apocalypse Now was the worst film ever made! But little by little, audiences kept seeing it and it sort of persisted in that way.”

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Chef Flynn McGarry: “People are going to like what they like and also not like what they don’t like. And all you can do is hope that they get it.”

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Angela Missoni, photographed here with her daughters by Juergen Teller: "There is so much passion from all the family — even my nephews and my children; they’re all linked. They’re all very present in the life of the company."

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Architect Daniel Libeskind: "I think it is much better not to have a goal, but rather to have a path."