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"I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you."
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"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."

"I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead."

"We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."

"Rather than wait to see what the day or future holds, why not design and plan the future you want to experience?"

"Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves."

"We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us."

"Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring and iconic building was entrusted to a gardener."

"If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have enough room for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world."

"The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but in the space within to be lived in."

"It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect."
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"But it is funny, because I saw Unbreakable recently and it's a strange movie, I didn't mind it, and it's got some interesting things going on."

"The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment."

"I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way."

"With Fever, the film was so made for the screen, and there's so much surround sound that was done for the film - enormous detail paid to that. I wasn't thinking video, because I didn't know how it was going to turn out."

"I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and eventually, if you have a certain sensibility, some of your movies will hit and some just won't."
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