When everything gets turned upside down, it only leads to better quality stuff.
Academics get paid for being clever, not for being right.
The hardest part of design. . . is keeping features out.
Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating.
It is not enough that we build products that function, that are understandable and usable, we also need to build products that bring joy and excitement, pleasure and fun, and, yes, beauty to people's lives.
When a device as simple as a door has to come with an instruction manual—even a one-word manual—then it is a failure, poorly designed.
Technology may change rapidly, but people change slowly. The principals [of design] come from understanding of people. They remain true forever.
Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.
Time is so much a part of what makes you close to people.
I guess I would model myself after the Bill Condons, the Frank Darabonts and the David Nutters if I were to direct a feature, which I would love to do, by the way.
Older women have always been attracted to me.