Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

Everything we do is designed, whether we're producing a magazine, a website, or a bridge. Design is really the creative invention that designs everything.

'Little Miss Sunshine' snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for.

I always loved designing, but the context needs to be right, and have a positive perspective.

In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep on the move. Travel is natural.

Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.

Sometimes ideas come so quickly that I have to stop working on one song to start another. But I don't forget the first one. If it works, it will always be there. It's like the truth: it will find you...

It has been the experience of a lifetime to work with Catherine Middleton to create her wedding dress, and I have enjoyed every moment of it. It was such an incredible honor to be asked, and I am so...

My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they...

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

Not being given everything encourages you to create... That was one of the first steps for me learning to invent things.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only...

We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time.

I'm a very slow screenwriter. It takes time for me to write a screenplay. Also, I feel it's not my strength.

At high school, instead of the weekly essay, I would write a poem, and the teacher accepted that. The impulse was one of laziness, I'm certain. Poems were shorter than essays.

When I was nine, the teacher asked us to write a piece about our village fête. He read mine in class. I was encouraged and continued. I even wanted to write my memoirs at the age of ten. At twelve I...

I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.

I meet people who are in movies, and the stuff that they write is terrible, but nobody tells them that because they're famous. So I worry that my stuff might be like that, too.

Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.

Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.

Usually when I'm out doing stuff, I'm just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don't really get a chance to just chill out until I come here, in my creative space.

For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their...

I recently discovered Artkive, a wonderful app that allows you to archive your child's artwork and create cool gifts like photo albums, mugs, mousepads, etc. It's very easy to use, and since Arabella...

There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What's the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it's...

If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.'