The expiatory church of La Sagrada Família is made by the people and is mirrored in them. It is a work that is in the hands of God and the will of the people.

Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments.

Tomorrow we will do beautiful things.

The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature.

But man does not create...he discovers.

The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God

Originality consists of returning to the origin. Thus, originality means returning, through one's resources, to the simplicity of the early solutions.

The creation continues incessantly through the media of man. But man does not create... he discovers.

In the Sagrada Familia, everything is providential.

Form does not necessarily follow function

Originality is a return to the origin.

By the time I'm nine I know the world is a dangerous place.  I've heard whispers about razorblades in apples, about Charlie Manson and his family.  But no one is offering any clear information.

The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.

I am scared of the day, when they turn atheism into another religion for controlling masses.

There's a time in your life when you have to stop looking back and start looking forward because otherwise you're going to walk down the road one day and bump into a lamppost. But it's not easy.

Sixteen years after 9/11, we still don't even know what to call the enemy, rather than form a comprehensive strategy.

If you're aware of injustice, you can either ignore it, say there is nothing you can do about it, complain about it and not do anything, or put your energies into doing something about it.

It's fun to be a little bit different in the world, to make a few new trails of your own.

I try and do films I know I'm going to enjoy watching as well as being in.

The worst situations in the world always start with the words, 'trust me.'

I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities.