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. — 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
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 or acting. I thought, "I don't want to be an actor, but I know production and stage management take acting classes" - this is literally my internal monologue. I was like, "Designers don't have to take… — James Pearse Connelly Copy Share
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 days. And if you were going to walk into a space, where did you come from? Was there a bathroom around the corner? These are things that are authentic, and that's what makes successful television. It's… — James Pearse Connelly Copy Share
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. I want to study math and psychology and physics and all these nerdy things with computers." That was fun and great, but that didn't work out. At the end of… — James Pearse Connelly Copy Share
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
