When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.

Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.

I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.