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I stand in the way of no one's ambition. I only ask that no one stand in the way of the people's well being and the nation's progress.
Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it's cake decoration.
But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.
The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.
You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.
My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.
It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
In writing a weird story, I always try very carefully to achieve the right mood and atmosphere and place the emphasis where it belongs.
London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.