To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.

I do think the smaller-scale studio works have that incredible love of data crunching, whereas I would say the large-scale earthworks tend to be much more stripped-down. With the mappings, as connected as they are to a much more analytical idea, what's a map? And can I make a map about time? I think the first time was Hurricane Sandy, the flood plane; a moment in time, but indelibly marked on any of us who were in the city. Mapping time is something that I'm really interested in.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

To fly we have to have resistance.

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

When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.