My best moment of 2011 would definitely be the birth of my daughter six weeks ago, on September 25.

My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did.

I grew up all around the world, and when I settled in a suburb in America, I didn't have any idea what I was supposed to wear.

I kind of grew up on the East Coast, lived in New York for a while, then moved to L.A. So I'm not a New Yorker at all, but I'm much happier in New York; I've always liked it better.

It's the way a man chooses to limit himself that determines his character. A man without habits, consistency, redundancy - and hence boredom - is not human. He's insane.

Be grateful as your deeds become less and less associated with your name, as your feet ever more lightly tread the earth.

Creativity is discontent translated into arts.

Bilbao opened in 1997. It was only ten years later that I was asked to do another museum. A lot of other people got work because of Bilbao.

There's practical political considerations obviously, but there's also these broader themes, which is like, I don't want to be the manager of the Middle East.

French cinema has always been very interesting, and it's still very powerful. I think it goes to show that it's great to still have a cinema that doesn't try to emulate, for example, American cinema.

Don't judge my brother; he is not a book.

Man is the being who is involuntarily and voluntarily busy with himself and his surroundings, between two broadcasting stations of good and evil, until one or the other ultimately prevails.

The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them.

In a world wracked by hatred, economic crisis, and political tension, America remains mankind's best hope.