The Talks

Christoph Waltz

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

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

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."

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

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

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

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."

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."

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." 

Robin Wright

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."

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

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.”

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.”

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."

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