I've been in and out of academia EVER SINCE I was YOUNG.

I've always listened to a lot of FILM MUSIC, ACTUALLY.

If I wanted to do CLOTHES or if I wanted to make a BUILDING or design a choreography, you are ABLE to do that - they are all under a similar KIND of design UMBRELLA.

At the same TIME, I WOULD ADD that the American people have a lot of courage.

If you want to come up with a really original design idea, and you want to CAPTURE a WHOLE NEW design direction, perhaps the best WAY to arrive at that is not by ACTING and thinking and doing like everybody else. That's all.

I remember in the EARLY nineties PEOPLE saying the hat was just for OLD WOMEN, but that's RIDICULOUS.

Our idea of nature is INCREASINGLY being DETERMINED by SCIENTIFIC developments. And they have become decisive for our IMAGE of reality.

In a traditional Japanese or Chinese garden, it's not only about the building or temple but about the WHOLE setup - the structure, the LANDSCAPE, the light, the PLANTS, the water. The whole experience that MAKES your life there so beautiful.

There is so much vulgarity in the everyday, that when somebody has the pretension to do SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY for the COMMUNITY, then you have to suffer.

You do NEED some dispensation for local farmers, because the FAST food industry will promote the unsanitary conditions of farming. With VEGETABLES, you have to be careful where they COME from; you have to know the farmers and trust them. If you buy from the farmers' market, it's already been investigated.

Up until the WAR of the ROSES there had been continual CONFLICT in ENGLAND.

If I remember rightly HOLLAND for instance has something like 45, and it's a much SMALLER country. In COMPARISON we have very few and they are very badly financed.

The most basic TASK of any museum MUST be the protection of works of cultural SIGNIFICANCE entrusted to its CARE for the edification and pleasure of future generations.

The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a STORY, actors, music, and CAMERA DESIGN. When it WORKS it can ENTERTAIN, move people and teach us all.