Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession.

I think regionalism was a little easier before mass communication was made possible. This is not to say that regionalism doesn't exist anymore. I think it does.

The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in.

Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.

The moment you put something down on paper it forces you to organize and arrange these thoughts a little better.

What's interesting in archaeology is that we always understand other cultures by digging up their cities; architecture is almost always a way for us to formulate a diagram of how people used to live.

Morphology happens over time. It's not necessarily a bad thing.

The diagram of the house is a portrait of the family, a true portrait, whether it's sad or happy.

The world is meaningless and therefore it's funny.

Setting up absurd worlds with rules to violate - it's one of the things I hope to achieve with my work.

I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds.

Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.

I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.

The last film is always the most important.

Leadership is solving problems.

There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.

Maintaining the trust of the consumer is critical to our business

...human beings always have and always will seek havens where we are free to be productive and to keep the property we create.

You never want your second act or the whole movie to just be this relentless march towards its goal. You want things to take the audience by surprise.

In life, we all learn from everyone.

I will never stop doing stand-up; that's my career, but I will do movies in Hollywood.