Frank Gehry

This neo-minimalism super cold stuff is weird to me. I need a place where I can come home and take my shoes off. ”

My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff. ”

I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them. ”

Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously. ”

Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head. ”

The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and work with them as I'm searching for an idea that works. ”

Bilbao opened in 1997. It was only ten years later that I was asked to do another museum. A lot of other people got work because of Bilbao. ”

I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes. ”

I work from the inside out. ”

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city. ”