Oscar Niemeyer

I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.

I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now.

Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.

We have to base architecture on the environment.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

Radio was used powerfully by Josef Goebbels to disseminate Nazi propaganda, and just as powerfully by King George VI to inspire the British people to fight invasion.