Doing anything in Japan as a sort of architecture - related project is just fantastic because they do everything so perfectly and so quickly. It's unlike anywhere else in the world.

Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out.

If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.

I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come.

I'm always working. Like a lot of creative people I can't switch off. I can't disassociate work from pleasure. My job is my hobby.

My job as a designer is to look into the future. Not to use any frame of reference that exists

I don't have any furniture of mine in my room.

I'm fascinated with materials, with processes, with technologies.

To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.

If I can feel freedom then I can create.

I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.

Don't fall asleep yet. Contrary to popular belief, that's not where dreams get accomplished.

I'm a Red girl in a sea of Silvers and I can't afford to feel sorry for anyone, least of all the son of a snake.

Ignorant is not the one who does not know much but the one who does not make senses.

On film you put all your energies into a single glance.

I never get over feeling bad about tearing open a beautifully wrapped present. It takes ten seconds to destroy a work of art that took someone ten minutes to accomplish.

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

I would love to work with Tim Burton. I think we would be very good together.

The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.

Actions have consequences. Ignorance about the nature of those actions does not free a person from responsibility for the consequences. (28)

I think acting is only one part of the piece of the movie. I'ts an important piece, but I'd like to be involved in all the other aspects of making movies.