Art is a conduit toward human needs and perception.

Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expand the horizon of possibilities.

When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working.

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.

Too little confidence, and you're unable to act; too much confidence, and you're unable to hear.

Creativity's about ownership.

The problem isn't how to make the world more technological. It's about how to make the world more humane again.

Simplicity and complexity need each other.

If you are going to have less things, they have to be great things.

Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form.

Sleep, where in the waste is the wisdom?

...and that there were many things grown-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves...

So that when you found your Jake Andrews, you would know. You would know what it felt like to stand in front of your forever

Doing what is right isn't the problem it's knowing what is right.

Set yourself up for success from the very beginning and then focus on maintaining that success.

Getting bad reviews or doing something thats not great is also really good for you as an actor. It also makes me feel as an actor that Ive earned my stripes a bit.

It's just writing about things, feelings, not that we're dark or depressed...just as much as anyone else is.

You either have a civil society or you dont.

The other day, I was walking my dog around my building . . . on the ledge. Some people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.

I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it.