“If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the...” — Sydney Pollack Quote

If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the room looks like, what the people are wearing, what time of day it is, what the light is, how to photograph it, where to put the camera. It involves optics and costume design and set design and architecture.

Depicting a terrorist act in a film isn't going to incite terrorism.

I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life.

Film is a collective experience, as you know.

Making a movie is a network of decisions that keep multiplying as you go. You leave a trail of decisions behind you, and that's how you start to see the shape of what you've done. When you get far enough, you turn around and say, 'Ha, that's the movie.' It's only then that you find out if it's going to work or not.

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.

I've always been interested in art, architecture, color.

Architecture, like dance, is also a language - one that everybody understands.

I went to school for engineering, I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.