This generation I'm a member of, we're sort of infected by this idea that you had to make the world a better place.

My mother wanted to be president of the United States. She wanted to be the first woman president. She was born in 1924. Instead she had eight children.

I really believed all this stuff - that I had to change the world.

I always had an interest in space and the effect it had on you.

The challenge of today's generation of architects is the environment.

My younger brother is an architect, my son and his wife are both architects, they work for me, and so I guess I've started a dynasty.

I decided I wanted to do something that was worthwhile and thought I would try architecture. There was not an architect in my family.

Architects need to restore and protect.

Displays of weapons will not be able to bring peace, only displays of love and understanding can do that.

Opinions are like ugly children … despite it all you love your own.

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have monarchs it would be hard to find a better one.

He's a bully. I love bullies. They have such big, shiny red buttons to push.

I love to laugh.It's the only way to live. Enjoy each day-it's not coming back again!

LIFE IS A GREAT MYSTERY. IS EVERYBODY A DIFFERENT PERSON WHEN THEY ARE WITH SOMEBODY ELSE?

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

How do you create a film that can reach millions of people and engage them in the subject? You have to take risks and try something new.

They'd branded me like some kind of animal. Lower than an animal. A number.