Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy from the elements or from other inspiration.

This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all the American dream has been tested and has triumphed.

Dreams will get you nowhere a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

I've always said that one night I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere I'm standing on grass and it's raining and I'm with the person I love and I know I'm at the very point I've been dreaming of getting to.

I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin' and hook up with them later.

I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.

Right now I'd love to be sitting on a Greek island somewhere because of being Greek American eating great octopus salad and some fantastic lamb. Or sipping a little ouzo. I think the Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest... Lots of nuts vegetables fruits fresh fish lean meats yogurt.

I love the idea of couture and its emphasis on creation. There's where I made my name - in design - and there's where I'd like to stay.

By the fourth grade I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.

Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments it is apt to emerge again and again independently - the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs 'good tricks.'

I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look.

So if I design it and then go away it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.

When I was very very young seven years old I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.

I'm not a size 0 and I'm nowhere close to it. But I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.

Once you understand this way you will be able to make your room alive you will be able to design a house together with your family a garden for your children places where you can work beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream.

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.

When you say 'design ' everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks whereas for me design is pretty much everything.

Music is where I have the most creative freedom but I love producing. To me that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director sometimes picking a writer to the actors the wardrobe set design editing music and marketing.

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where like all desert dwellers they dream their buildings rather than design them.

A purpose an intention a design strikes everywhere even the careless the most stupid thinker.

What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together.

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums concert halls and civic buildings.

If the human condition were the periodic table maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power I reckon would be where oxygen is.