"I realized that I loved using computers to create something, but being an architect just wasn't going to keep me interested. The idea of a life spent obsessing over bathroom details for an Upper East Side penthouse was pretty depressing."

"Listen, whatever makes the movie better. That's the attitude you have to have."

"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."

"Without any doubt at all, teacher quality is the fundamental differentiator. Not just, incidentally, of education, but I would argue, probably the biggest single differentiator of success for the nations of the 21st Century."

"My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band."

"Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess."

"I'm a big believer in education, period."