New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.

You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

I pushed the process forward by saying, 'We should do this, this, and this right now. Please find the budget for me to find a structural engineer, a mechanical engineer, a civil engineer, so we can do the preliminary work.

There are bound to be differences in any artistic collaboration with landscape elements, or theater, of lighting elements.

I built a series of supporters that had my back. I never abused that trust. You can't cry wolf. You have to solve most problems yourself.

For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.

I'm a little more measured. That sense of urgency I thought accompanied things - it can take a little longer. You have to take the long view.