Indravarman Quotes

I have had work done.

It takes time to build roads. You can't just wave a magic wand.

I'm just a senior ditch digger.

Shovel Ready

A guy digging ditches or a plumber wiping joints - it solves problems, you know? You have to dig this hole so wide, so long, so deep. You dig it, and that's it.

Backhoes can save us a lot of digging. But of course, you can misuse it.

My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.

We should all agree that we should repair roads and bridges and water systems.

We've turned film into such an industry that we pursue naturalism just by shaking the camera and cutting the film to ribbons to provoke a bogus sense of documentary. But we haven't done the homework. To push the depth that the Actor's Studio did or the Russian theatres did with their actors is to rehearse, to spend time, to dig, to excavate.

America's infrastructure was once the envy of the world.

I liked my father's work. But above all I liked the idea of doing something concrete and useful. Building a house is a metaphor that I like, it's at the core of my life philosophy: starting from the bottom and reaching the top.

It would be nice sometimes to take a longer break in between projects, but unfortunately, the way that the business is, there's such a demand for new material on a consistent basis that it's nearly impossible to do that.

I guess I just like the idea of digging things up. Although I used to be scared of human skeletons.

I studied archaeology.

You don't build a great castle just all at once.

I turned out to be a very good cement-mixer.

The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.

Construction will always be needed. You will always need to renovate projects.

The significance and volume of repairs that are needed across the country demand that we give state and local governments the long-term certainty they need to effectively execute these projects.

I used to roof hay barns for my father. It's dangerous work. Writing is much better.

When it comes down to digging, can't nobody dig as hard as I can dig.

One way or another, we're going to fix the roads in Michigan.

I wanted to be an engineer.

The architect works for so many years building it, and the moment you deliver it to the people is the moment when you are unnecessary.

I don't want projects to take 10 years to set up. That adds to the cost.