If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.

My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

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

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

I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.