The best way way to get a visual image is not to think of a visual image.

Be stimulated by rejection

I've never had a problem with a dumb client. There is no such thing as a bad client. Part of our job is to do good work and get the client to accept it.

Unless you can begin with an interesting problem, it is unlikely you will end up with an interesting solution.

When you have something truthful to say, it will design itself.

How do you do original work when culture is telling you which font face to use, which layout.

If you haven't read Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer

Once you have the statement, it will design itself.

Forget all the rules you ever learned about graphic design.

Counter the effects of culture (steering your design ideas) by going out and looking for new experiences.

I know that being an in-house person is much, much harder than being outside...that's why I've never had a job.

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.

Jesus is not a candle. A company in South Dakota is selling candles with the scent of Jesus. You light one and your friends says, Christ, what's that smell?

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

There is no delight the equal of dread

I find Mexico exciting to visit, but I think [it] is looked down upon. Mexico is not a very respected place, unless you're Mexican, and even then it's something of a love/hate relationship.

Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.

My heart is fluid and soaring. There's no longer any space between heartbeats.

Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

Anywhere in the world you hear a Chicago bluesman play, it's a Chicago sound born and bred.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.