Manolo Blahnik

I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.

My shoes are special shoes for discerning feet.

I never thought that I would sell to young people, but now girls who are 14 and 15 buy my shoes.

The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.

In all animation, if it's done quickly, you'll know it. And if you're very slow and careful with it, it's going to look a little more beautiful. It's just compressing time into seconds.

I hate the bad rap that people give my parents. Because they are just parents, really, at the end of the day trying to stand up for their daughter and themselves.