“The most enjoyable things are the old eighteenth-century terraces that...” — Ken Loach Quote

The most enjoyable things are the old eighteenth-century terraces that are still standing, that domestic architecture.

There's so much control, so many executive producers, so many people looking over their shoulder, so many people trying to second-guess the boss. The space for writers and directors and actors to be creative is zilch.

For the writers I have worked with and for me, the relationship between the personal comedy of daily life and the economic context in which that life happens has always been very significant.

I don't think films about working class people are sad at all; I think they're funny and lively and invigorating and warm and generous and full of good things.

And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.

I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design.

The idea was that you could grow a system like the Internet one network at a time and then interconnect them. In some sense, the most important thing was the invention of the architecture protocols that enabled the Internet.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only such architecture is creative.