You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.

I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.

There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?

Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless

You really have to have a goal. The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal. Know what it is you want to find out.

The beauty of the landscape - where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together - has never left me.

I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.

Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.

Yes, I'm a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough.

I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.

I really believe in the idea of the future.

What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

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It's always a struggle with small films to get people in the theater. I think I have a perverse contrarian streak that's always kind of aspired to make movies that are impossible to market.

The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.

One philosopher has rightly said that property is theft. But I'd like to use my future ownership of property to give something back.

There's enough Ferraris here to eat a plate of spaghetti.

To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to have some kind of guiding principle. A belief of some kind

Once you become dedicated to a cause, personal security is not the goal. What will happen to you personally does not matter. My cause, my race, is worth dying for.

Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That's something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.