You always learn lessons in business.

I'm strong-willed. Architects are strong-willed. You get the best results with a strong client and a strong architect working together.

Philanthropy is activism.

The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing great work and even dissuade some talented Americans from entering the profession. This needs to change.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

School boards are, for the most part ,made up of political wannabes who see a board seat as a stepping stone for political office, or well-meaning parents who represent an ethnic group or geography, or have some other narrow interests. Few people on them understand what governance is about.

I don't want to be in the film business. I'm not even sure it's a business.