I've got a farm in Somerset, and I think it's God's own country. I love it.

Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family.

Sustainability is now a big baggy sack in which people throw all kinds of old ideas, hot air and dodgy activities in order to be able to greenwash their products and feel good.

Building your own home is about desire, fantasy. But it's achievable; anyone can do it.

I don't look at what people do with their homes in terms of money, but the social and personal value of what they're trying to do and achieve.

Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.

It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life... what is a life but a history of events badly remembered?

Every breath we take as human beings damages the planet.

Generally speaking, I think that if you do anything with commitment and passion, it will come good.

Living an environmentally responsible lifestyle can seem like a Scrooge-like list of don'ts. Don't take that flight, don't buy that car, don't eat those blueberries flown in from somewhere far-flung.

I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's.

There's no one alive I can't beat.

I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.

Gestation requires protected space; ripening requires both permeability to the outer — and non-disturbance.

Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot.

Aspire to be, and all that we are not God will give us credit for trying.

I've grown up, everyone's got to grow up. But there's something inside me, I'm always going to have that little sort of, how do you say, child streak.

I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual.

I do not use crack cocaine, nor am I an addict of crack cocaine.

My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.

The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.