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.

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.

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.

There is always space in my life for a unicorn.(i.e. fantasy)

The most important job of a leader is to instill the confidence to follow.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

It takes 10 million failures to find the right stuff.

Who dreams of a son, save one, childless, having no bright face to flatter its own, who dreams of a son?

Comedy clubs can be brutal. Those people are for real, and if you aren't funny, they aren't laughing. They don't care who you are.

I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.

I drive with my knees. Otherwise, how can I put on my lipstick and talk on my phone?

The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.

If nothing is declared unchangeable, then the organization will resist all change.