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.

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.

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.

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.

In a world where the dead have returned to life, the word" trouble' loses much of its meaning.

Only the present exists. The past is gone, and the future has not yet happened. There is only ever time present.

You know you are capitalism’s ideal puppet (and that education betrayed you) when winning the lottery is your only chance to realizing financial freedom.

Do not get obsolete like an old technology, keep innovating yourself.

Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.

We [The United States] should be prepared to launch a pre-emption strike against Iran to eliminate their nuclear capability.

Vehicle emissions standards directly sparked the development and application of a wide range of automotive technologies that are now found throughout the global automobile market.

All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out

what's life good fer anyhow? The minute you crawl into the world for no good reason of yer own, it's got you licked four ways from the ace.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.