I had a dual role: designer and advocate.

You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

I'm a little more measured. That sense of urgency I thought accompanied things - it can take a little longer. You have to take the long view.

I think my desire to imagine a future for this site came out of trying to come to terms with the emotions that day aroused.

I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here.

I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me.

I believe that people are fundamentally are decent. And, yes, you will have people that sometimes will misbehave.

For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.

PERFORMING TRIBUTE 9/11 shows the heroism of people who have chosen to respond to devastation and hatred with quiet determination and a belief that they can and will make the world a better place.

New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.

Be inspired but not proud.

If you're not making epic, archetypal films on some level, I think you're wasting a great potential of cinema.

We never use the condition of the footballs as an excuse. We play with whatever or kick with whatever we have to use and that's the way it is.

People are much deeper than stereotypes. That's the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, 'I'd have never guessed.

[T]he young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the same movements.

Playing third base, you rarely have time to get into a great fielding position. It's all about reaction.

Sometimes our power resides not in what we do, but in what we don't do.

How many times can our emotions be tied to someone else's - be pulled and stretched and twisted - before they snap? Before they can never be mended again?

As long as she wants me, I’m here.

Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.