Joseph Kosinski Quotes

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.

Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.

The difference between architecture and engineering comes in only with the creation of schools. It's a bureaucratic distinction. The result of both disciplines is the construction of objects in a landscape.

During high school, I wanted to work in architecture or engineering for no particular reason.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

I like engineering, but I love the creative input.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only such architecture is creative.

Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.

Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.

There are a million things I'd rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.

New York is vertical - all skyscrapers.

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.

I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.

Architecture aims at Eternity.