The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.
How big can we get before we get bad?
If you really think about it, when watching television, you have product placement all the time.
First, this isn't about telecommuting, because we still have offices that people will come to regularly when they need to brainstorm together, meet with clients, or do research in the library.
I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable. . . I can't help it, it's my personality.
Transferring successfully to the next generation means producing work that's as good as or better than the work of the first generation that founded the agency.
You come to work because the office is a resource: The office is a place where you can meet with other people, and the office has libraries of books and information on CD-ROM that might help you with your work.
As a director, you try to do things that are going to touch the human experience somehow, and emotions that mean something to people. You search for those projects and you hope to realize the potential in a project.
The notion that Western religions are more rigid than those of Asia is overdrawn. Ours is the most permissive society history has ever known - almost the only thing that is forbidden now is to forbid - and Asian teachers and their progeny play up to this propensity by soft-pedaling Hinduism's, Buddhism's, Sufism's rules.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
The worst thing about television is that everybody you see on television is doing something better than what you're doing. You never see anybody on TV just sliding off the front of the sofa, with potato chip crumbs all over their shirt.