I like the absurd and the surreal: the Coen brothers, Bunuel, Kubrick.

Sustainability is now a big baggy sack in which people throw all kinds of old ideas, hot air and dodgy activities in order to be able to greenwash their products and feel good.

Building design isn't trendy.

I've got a farm in Somerset, and I think it's God's own country. I love it.

I have a recurring nightmare that I wake up in a gutter with nothing. I've had it all my life. That's why I work, I think.

I was never a hugely successful theatre designer. I painted a lot of scenery and did the lighting, and my lighting business grew out of that.

I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones.