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.

Budget affects everything.

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.

Just to give the audience a breath of fresh air is important.

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.

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.

Only Allah changes the regime.

They also work as half-hours. The stories are all different but include elements of revenge, or the supernatural, or some sort of surprise.

When I have my moments of insomnia, youll find me on style.com.

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What must be the wealth that avarice, aided by power, cannot exhaust!

The production of fuel from basic food commodities is, in fact, unjustifiable.

It is very difficult, it is perhaps impossible, for someone who loves his mother to love the woman whom your father left her for.

The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language.

Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.

My clothes have a story. They have an identity. They have a character and a purpose. That's why they become classics. Because they keep on telling a story. They are still telling it.