The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

The crimes of children reproduce themselves, closing their victims in cages built of nightmares.

Soon we will not need people anymore, as everything will be done by automatons, including bringing up children.

I come from a family of working professionals: my dad is a chartered accountant, and my mom is a professor.

I think color, for a costume designer, is one of your biggest storytelling devices.

I really don't wear a lot of makeup, but my makeup artist Priscilla Ono has taught me the basics.

I think we ought to have a new rule: You can ask two questions, and then we can pick the one we want to answer.

Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.

Spend your energy on things you believe in, and do them honestly and to the best of your ability.

A sentence has meaning in the sense that a train has a track, not that a train has a passenger.

I don't have bad relationships with my players. But I don't get into long conversations with them either.