The word "budget" is the idea-killer. It slaughters any idea. — James Pearse Connelly Budget Copy Share Image
Just to give the audience a breath of fresh air is important. — James Pearse Connelly Air Copy Share Image
If you can give your walls history, it supports the action that's happening in front of them. — James Pearse Connelly Action 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 Done 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… — James Pearse Connelly Awards 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… — James Pearse Connelly Creativity Copy Share Image
To me, Los Angeles and California and executive power are about big, open warehouse buildings. Tech companies are buying oversized buildings, because… — James Pearse Connelly Bigs 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… — James Pearse Connelly Bigs Copy Share Image
My approach is to 100 percent get the concept and the visual right. Get the client to love the space. Once they… — James Pearse Connelly Approach 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… — James Pearse Connelly Artist 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… — James Pearse Connelly Behinds 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… — James Pearse Connelly Certain 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… — James Pearse Connelly Artist 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… — James Pearse Connelly Around the corner 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… — James Pearse Connelly Acting 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… — James Pearse Connelly Architect Copy Share Image
In New York, it's a little bit more formal, a little bit more decorated, and there's a real appreciation for traditional style.… — James Pearse Connelly Appreciation Copy Share Image
If the person or artist doesn't touch it, and if the camera stays relatively far away from it, it doesn't really have… — James Pearse Connelly Art Copy Share Image
You take for granted the details that make something look real. It can still look fabulous, but if you add a light… — James Pearse Connelly Add Copy Share Image
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,… — James Pearse Connelly Approved Copy Share Image
I was a gay kid in high school in the late '90s, and I was in theater club. I was never a… — James Pearse Connelly Clubs Copy Share Image
