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Nepotism sometimes can be a lose-lose situation.

When in doubt, you bring in relatives. Nepotism is a part of my work.

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal.

Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.

Despotism is a long crime.

I've always been, with acting, very hesitant to get myself into situations where I would be accused of nepotism.

Having created a business that is a success, when you are in a nepotistic situation, people who don't do anything themselves, well, it is easy for them to say it's never good enough.