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…

- James Pearse Connelly

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…

- James Pearse Connelly

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…

- James Pearse Connelly

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 …

- James Pearse Connelly

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

- James Pearse Connelly

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 …

- James Pearse Connelly

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…

- James Pearse Connelly

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

- James Pearse Connelly

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…

- James Pearse Connelly