Robert Rinder Quotes

I want to build a house in Indian Harbour, that's all.

So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'

I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.

The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams.

I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be built. I want to be an architect.

I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious!

When I left the work world, I started designing my dream house. I dived into architecture and bought seven vacant lots. My plan was to build one house, move in, and build the next. If the next was better, I'd move in and sell the previous one - so on and so forth.

I tend to renovate properties when I'm not working.

I advise everyone to build a house at 19. It's such good practice.

I actually spent a lot of time reading about how professional managers work. And how people build bridges.

I fell in love with real estate, renovations, and became a licensed contractor when I was 26.

Getting into the residential investment business entails lots of renovation work.

I like interior decorating. I really like to build houses. And landscaping, I like that.

The increment of new development will be the single building lot, if we are lucky, and most of the codes that are now enforced will be ignored because the redundancies they mandate will not be affordable.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Anyone wanting a new house picks one from among those built on speculation or still in process of construction. The builder no longer works for his customers but for the market.

I did buy a new piece of furniture so it's like, "Oh, that's something new." But generally my goals are made in the fall.

The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction.

If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.

A lack of communication between citizens and policemen is real stuff.

I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make.

A reliable assurance of the right and ability to dismantle the constructed structure must be offered, before the job of construction starts in earnest.

In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.

Cut out doors and windows for the house. The holes make it useful.

What I like is having a conversation that gets you on the right page. And, if that means having conversations in lieu of rehearsal - I don't wanna get up and cook the thing before we shoot it but I do wanna know that me and the director know exactly what we both want to achieve, and that we're moving in the same direction.