We need practice solving problems.

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.

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

Tom . . . is Christ among us?' 'Yes.' Where? Why do I not see him? Why does he not come to me?' 'Because you did not love, ' Neville said, hating the fact that he had to say it.

I hate feeling full, so Christmas is about the only time I really stuff myself.

I think you need to have people around you who can remind you that, actually, what you just said makes no sense. Fortunately, I have my wife to do that continually.

Life! Don't talk to me about life!

The thing about real life is that important events don't announce themselves... Usually something that is going to change your whole life is a memory before you can stop and be impressed about it.

The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.

Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.

I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.

If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me.

The people that are doing work that matters aren't doing work thats popular. They're just doing work that changes some people.