I met Michel Houellebecq in a Frankfurt hotel surrounded by strip bars and nightclubs. After I talked to Michel's wife, my assistant and me were invited to his hotel room.
In the mid-nineties, I was introduced to David Bowie by Damien Hirst. I thought to conduct a different kind of interview a truly creative person like David would be great. We talked in London and talked "up the hill backwards".
I met Julian in 1996. A nice guy with a big heart who received the crew and me with a great hospitality. A great artist and a wonderful director who won the Best Director Award at the Festival de Cannes in 2007 for his film "Papillion".
In 1999 I was invited to Tracey's place. My friends Tina and Stefan from the Maxwell Restaurant in Berlin made the contact. Tracey ate Lychees, and I rolled the cameras.
Once upon a time in L.A. I called Harry Dean Stanton, and we agreed to meet at the Mint Club. We talked backstage about God and religion until the roadie called him on stage.
I went to Derneburg castle with Dutch photographer Anton Corbijn to meet Georg Baselitz. The painter, who became famous for putting things upside down, stood on his head and talked with his feet.
I met the "brain of humanity" at the Royal Society of Edinburgh. I e-mailed him most of my questions, so he could type in his answers beforehand. However, some of the questions he answered on location.
I was introduced to Daniel Libeskind at the Academy of Arts in Berlin in 1993 by Peter Lilienthal. Years later, after he had completed the Jewish Museum in Berlin, I met Daniel in his office in Berlin. I remember him as exceptionally enthusiastic -- the living end of a nerve.
Craig Venter is one of the most important scientists of our time. He decoded the human genome. However, in our talk he concluded, "there are no genes for creativity." Because I showed up alone with a camera, Mr. Venter called me a "truly independent filmmaker".
Milla was introduced to me in L.A. on the shoot of "Million Dollar Hotel". Later, I had the pleasure to accompany her smoking cigarettes at the bar of the Chateau Marmont. Milla also came to the opening of my "Why Are You Creative?" Exhibition in the Espace Miramar in Cannes.
The Dalai Lama is one of the most exceptional human beings that I have met. And he is funny, too. I am eternally grateful to His Holiness for writing the foreword to my "Why Are You Creative?" book.
I met Benjamin in 2005 in Cannes. We talked in the hallways of the "Barton Fink" Hotel. Benjamin is the most creative guy on the Internet and the creative overlord of the Barbarian Group.
A postmodern journey through the creative alphabet: Hopper plays 26 different characters, deconstructing the world of media and advertising from ?A is for Art" to ?Z is for Zen and the art of advertising".
Featuring Bono, Abel Ferrara, Bob Geldof, Mikhail Gorbachev, Vaclav Havel, John Hegarty, Takeshi Kitano, David Lynch, Leni Riefenstahl, Wayne Wang and many others.
I met Nelson Mandela in Frankfurt at a congress of the Society for Technical Cooperation. His assistant Zelda liked the "Why Are You Creative?" project and so I was able to spend time with the President.
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