It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life... what is a life but a history of events badly remembered?

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

Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.

Every breath we take as human beings damages the planet.

Life involves other people and it is a compromise.

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 don't want anything that I buy to have done any harm to anyone or anything.