The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and work with them as I'm searching for an idea that works.

Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.

Time is just a blur for me. I don't know what - I don't even know where I am sometimes.

People ask me if I'm an artist or an architect. But I think they're the same.

Your best work is your expression of yourself.

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.

If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing.

You can look anywhere and find inspiration.

Not every person has the same kinds of talents, so you discover what yours are and work with them.

Take what comes your way. Do the best with it. Be responsible as you can and something good will happen.

You have to be optimistic. I still have doubts and conflicts, but the bottom line is, I believe in the future.

Joy of life is to be content.

My family is everything. I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.

The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.

As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along.

I'm moved by us, our quirks and mistakes.

The impossible isn't a limitation, it's an invitation.

Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.

I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.

Voters might have short memories. Politicians do not.

I used to go play football matches in the morning, and Id go straight from me football game to a dance competition.