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 love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here.

I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me.

I believe that people are fundamentally are decent. And, yes, you will have people that sometimes will misbehave.

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

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.

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.