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 a….

Budget affects everything..

These big Silicon Valley companies that are popping up are projecting growth skyrocketing in a few years. So they need a space they can grow into. No….

I was applying to the art school, but there was a checklist that said I had to do either production design or stage management or acting. I thought, ….

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 arc….

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 ….

If you can give your walls history, it supports the action that's happening in front of them..

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….

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….

I'm 36, and sometimes I'm working so hard I don't realize how much I've gotten done..

If you look around anywhere, layers are an important part of, not just the story and the concept, but the world you're in. If you just turn around an….

I don't even know of a room that doesn't have a flat-screen TV in it. These are things that just come in environments these days. And if you were goi….

I'm being totally honest, but I really do get chills every time I see something that I designed, painted on the biggest stage in Universal, standing ….

To me, Los Angeles and California and executive power are about big, open warehouse buildings. Tech companies are buying oversized buildings, because….

I was a gay kid in high school in the late '90s, and I was in theater club. I was never a thespian. I was much more of a lighting guy or a backstage ….

There was a period there where I was like, "No, no, no, this is crazy. I don't want to take any more drawing classes and talk about what looks best. ….

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, becaus….

Producers are looking to me to concept full worlds for subjects to compete, play a game show in, win an award, blah blah blah..

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

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..