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"The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story."
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"Rather than wait to see what the day or future holds, why not design and plan the future you want to experience?"

"The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics."

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

"We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."

"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."

"Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see."

"Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise."

"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."

"Solomon's temple also was designed to increase the attractiveness of the city of his residence."
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"I always admired Stanley Kubrick for the fact that he managed to beat the system somehow. I think he kind of had it all figured out."

"And when you see it the first time you put the film together, the roughest cut, is when you want to go home and open up your veins and get in a warm tub and just go away. And then it gradually, maybe, works its way back, somewhere toward that spot you were at before."

"Usually, I don't want to sit down and listen to the director gas on about his movie. I just can't actually imagine myself sitting down and having that much to say."

"You're doing it to make the character as specific as possible, so that it's a specific individual that you're talking about, not that whole class of people."

"We've been remarkably lucky in that we've been free to make the movies we've wanted to make the way we've wanted to make them. They've all been made for a price."

"I'd be perfectly happy never to have to answer anything again about how I work with Ethan, or whether we have arguments, or... you know what I mean? I've been answering those questions for 20 years. I suppose it's interesting to people."

"Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there."
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