The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

That was always my frustration with so many of these shows because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them.

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

Music is where I have the most creative freedom but I love producing. To me that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director sometimes picking a writer to the actors the wardrobe set design editing music and marketing.

I like the gritty parts of fashion the design the studio the pictures.

But alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

The principle of the design - the harmony rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.

My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design.

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where like all desert dwellers they dream their buildings rather than design them.

After 1980 you never heard reference to space again. Surface the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

I can design a collection in a day and I always do cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back moaning that it's late.

Now I design what I want to wear and it works that way.

I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.

While a case can be made for intelligent design I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature.

Let's be realistic how many people are buying a $2 000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.

Well I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.

I like design I like details to me it is just another form of self-expression.