I think unscripted variety television may or may not get a bad rap now, but it is a fabulous environment. It is exactly who I am, and there's so much creativity there to express.

Budget affects everything.

I was a child of a single mother/art teacher, and a father who was an architect, so I've always been around the combination of art, fine art, and architecture my entire life.

You take for granted the details that make something look real. It can still look fabulous, but if you add a light switch, a vent, or the notion of air conditioning, it can look real.

I treat every show, every production, like its own individual human organism that's grown up in a certain way, and they all have crazy habits and do different things.

Just to give the audience a breath of fresh air is important.

To me, Los Angeles and California and executive power are about big, open warehouse buildings. Tech companies are buying oversized buildings, because they project growth immediately.

In New York, it's a little bit more formal, a little bit more decorated, and there's a real appreciation for traditional style. Out here, it's casual, fresh, new, and almost humble.

I'm 36, and sometimes I'm working so hard I don't realize how much I've gotten done.

If you can give your walls history, it supports the action that's happening in front of them.

If the person or artist doesn't touch it, and if the camera stays relatively far away from it, it doesn't really have to be real.

curiosity did not kill the cat

Recognition of the value of time, the change in our attitude to time, time management and time consciousness translate into economic growth or increase in GDP.

The pride which is proud of want of pride is the most intolerable of all.

The Twenties have this sort of attitude where you never know what's around the corner.

Something about giving himself over to a woman was worse than having lunch with the devil.

African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism.

I tried so hard with movies like Vertigo and Middle of the Night and others. I felt those would show me that it's only a matter of time before I'd find the right one to reach out and touch people.

We don't have to wait for people to green light our projects, we can create our own intersections.

The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe, but each has to believe by himself.

It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.