James Pearse Connelly Quotes
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.
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.
I think unscripted variety television may or may not get a bad rap now, but it is a fabulous environment. It is exactly who I am, and there's so much creativity there to express.
Producers are looking to me to concept full worlds for subjects to compete, play a game show in, win an award, blah blah blah.
My approach is to 100 percent get the concept and the visual right. Get the client to love the space. Once they love the space, everything's possible.
Once we have a nice, conceptual sketch and rendering and design approved, then it's really about pinpointing what's functional and what's not, because functional equals expensive.
