The word "budget" is the idea-killer. It slaughters any idea.

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.

Who is a magician? The one who says, "I bring nonliving people to life.

Words, they say, are the food of minds. But, like other foods, they can do little by themselves.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.

Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.

Never forget that Hitler was a Catholic.

At age ten I switched to guitar, and I've loved the instrument ever since. And I love to practice. I just do. I just love guitar. It still brings a smile to my face!

Where I can preach I do preach and where I can't I still preach with love but just not the normal words we usually use in church.

Affirmation literally means to validate or confirm. So when we think a thought over and over again, we are validating or confirming it as the truth.

I'm not immune to the charms of the female form. And when I was 17 and I spent every spare minute surfing, most of the girls we hung out with would be topless.