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The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff.

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.

But I do think it's unwise, and it - to build a mosque at the site where 3,000 Americans lost their lives as a result of a terrorist attack. And I think to me it demonstrates that the - that Washington, the White House, the administration, the President himself seems to be disconnected from the mainstream of America.

There was a strange atmosphere on the set because we were filming in this large house, which was used for troubled children. You'd go in and find walls had been burnt down. The building was charged with this history and it stayed with us throughout the filming.

Home wasn't so much a house as people, family.

To go to the White House is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In fact, the building is not that big.

Dubai was a property bubble. Plain and simple. Go to Dubai and see what happened. It was... what I call it the 'Edifice complex' - it's just, we can grow by putting up lots and lots of buildings and trying to attract people to come here, stay here, and put up offices here and sooner or later, you put up too many.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.