Actually, if you look at the works of the great architects of our time, you can see that their most beautiful works are always their later works - Kahn, Corbusier, even Gehry.

I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.

There was a wish to get something exceptional, ... I also wanted to deliver something technically unique.

The most touching thing that anyone can say to me is that I have done something beautiful for the community.

I am always searching for more light and space.

You start a project as a young person and then at the end you are another person. You are ready to go for your pension.

The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of creativity to each building.

It's very atmospheric. It's not a building that is a severe statement in the skyline. We need the height; otherwise, the building almost disappears because it is so slender.

As a building is resistant to forces acting upon it, a person must be equally tenacious in life.

The architect needs to learn to see, and to open his eyes because there is always a lesson to learn from the streets.

The way is not always easy, but in order to bring a work through to completion, you will need a strong character, a broad foundation of knowledge and an enormous force of persuasion.

I have lost friends some by death ... others by sheer inability to cross the street.

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

You make me miserable. You really do, I want you to know that. Much as I love you, much as I need you, much as I can't exist without you, you make me miserable.

He hadn't done anything. He hadn't needed to. Just being there was enough.

Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart.

Involution always precedes evolution.

I think that all stories - if you make movies about zombies and aliens - it has always to do with your personal story. If not directly, it is about your fears, your obsessions, things like that.

I want to be real. I want to be a real person. That's what an artist is. An artist has to be honest. Without honesty, there's nothing.

Pridelessness is negative good; humility is positive good.

The best performance advice I have ever been given was to "Know where your light is, onstage."