From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to the treatment, which you can also hear at KCRW.com. It probably takes as much

creativity and discipline to run a design house as it does to direct a movie.

My guest, Tom Ford, has done both.

Of course, we know her and his work with YSL and turning Gucci into a household name again, rescuing it from bankruptcy.

His first film as a director and co-writer is an adaptation of Chris Richer.

What's a single man?

Tom, thanks for being here.

Thank you for having me, Elvis. If you can tell us what the movie's about, for those who haven't seen it yet.

You know, it's about isolation. It's about the isolation that we all feel as humans.

And it's really about connection. It's about coming to terms of what the important things in life really are,

which are the small things that we often overlook. And it's a romance as well.

So it's a love story. I mean, I have to say it's maybe above all a story about connection and

about love. What you did, you used the novel more as a taking off point than a literal

translation. Well, I did use the novel as a taking off point, but I do think that I actually stayed very true to the novel.

You know, when I first read this book, I was in my early 20s, and I was living in Los Angeles, I was a young actor, and the book spoke to me.

It spoke to me at that period of time because of the beautifully drawn character of George.

Much of the book is an internal

monologue. We're listening to George's thoughts. We're living with him through the day in his head.

He's an interesting guy, often very, very humorous, and we become attached to him through being

inside of his head. When I read this book later, when I really became serious

about starting to make a film,

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