It sounds really over the top to say you're responsible for the city of New York, but I do feel responsibility to the city of New York, to this country, to people everywhere. So many people were affected by the events of September 11, and I feel this is one of the ways that that event will be understood and defined.

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.

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.

I think my desire to imagine a future for this site came out of trying to come to terms with the emotions that day aroused.

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

When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly high rate of attrition. The people who stayed through are the people who were either great at it or the people who just didn't know how to stop. And I fell into that second category.

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.