On the January 4, 2014, "Revenge of the Myth" episode of the Mythbusters, the team tested the Star Wars myths could Luke swing Leia cross the Death Star chasm with his belt grappling hook, could the Ewoks destroy a Chicken Walker with two logs, and could Luke survive in the carcass of a tauntaun? All the main cast, with the exception of Kari Byron, have worked on Star Wars movies. ("Revenge of the Myth", Mythbusters, event)

I think of London as a partner. I’m in love with London and always have been.

Places make the best lovers. You can trust a place more than you can trust a person as a lover. A place is more dependable and it has so much depth and stimulation and provides you with the opportunity to realise yourself. The place reflects you, provides you with stimulation, the ability to realise potential. If it’s a good place it makes you feel stronger, makes you cleverer and more powerful … Now there are not many people who can give you that much stimulation, but being with a person and having the ability to have that friend, London, as a companion throughout gives you a wonderful extra dimension to anything you do.

It’s difficult to see what one is doing as a very, very, very small part of a very long process and realize the impact you’re having is very small in terms of the continuum of the life of the place, but a place is (a) so much more important, and (b) so much stronger than any individual, or committee or organization can be. Planning cannot create excellence in terms of building and design. We are in a position where we can sometimes make mediocrity out of awfulness – and across London, the planning system sees an awful lot of awfulness.