Ideas exist in the marketplace; they are thrown out for everyone to use.
You've got to like the people you work with.
I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.
Just because you are an architect and make decent buildings does not mean that you can suddenly become a set designer for one of the best avant-garde dancers in the world.
I don't know whose box I'm in, and I don't really care.
There's a drive in us to express ourselves in some way or form. We pick up whatever material is available. It's primitive. Kids see sand on the beach, build something and show their parents: "Look what I did, Mama." It's necessary to us.