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 guy. Because I wanted to do… — James Pearse Connelly Copy Share Image
Producers are looking to me to concept full worlds for subjects to compete, play a game show in, win an award, blah blah blah. — James Pearse Connelly Copy Share Image
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… — James Pearse Connelly Copy Share Image
I'm 36, and sometimes I'm working so hard I don't realize how much I've gotten done. — James Pearse Connelly Copy Share Image
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… — James Pearse Connelly Copy Share Image
If you can give your walls history, it supports the action that's happening in front of them. — James Pearse Connelly Copy Share Image
I think unscripted variety television may or may not get a bad rap now, but it is a fabulous environment. It is exactly who… — James Pearse Connelly Copy Share Image
I was applying to the art school, but there was a checklist that said I had to do either production design or stage management… — James Pearse Connelly Copy Share Image
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… — James Pearse Connelly Copy Share Image
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… — James Pearse Connelly Copy Share Image
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… — James Pearse Connelly Copy Share Image
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… — James Pearse Connelly Copy Share Image
These big Silicon Valley companies that are popping up are projecting growth skyrocketing in a few years. So they need a space they can… — James Pearse Connelly Copy Share Image
