'Design Star' was incredible, and I didn't think it could get any better, and then 'Color Splash' happened.

'Design Star' was incredible, and I didn't think it could get any better, and then 'Color Splash' happened.

Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.

I just don't think there are any rules to color. You have a small space with no windows? Put lamps in there, make it dramatic, paint the ceiling black. Do something with it. If it's dark, accentuate the darkness.

We've been in a war and a recession. That's why acccent colors with yellow and purple are popular. They're optimistic and flirty and happy colors.

Colors close together on the color wheel are analogous and will make a calm room. Colors that are farther apart are complementary and add drama.

A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.

Music can kind of make you one-dimensional. People see what's on the surface and what you rap about, and they make their decision on who you are from there.

I'm quite shy, so if there's a guy I like, I actually ignore him because I can't speak to him. I get all red and sweaty, and it's embarrassing.

All I've ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of crosswords that I didn't finish and maybe some old bicycle that I found lying around on set.

Whatever I'm throwing out there in my work, you either catch that detail because you're ready to catch it, but if you're not, that's OK - you're still being entertained.

Life is going to hit you some line drives, and sometimes you'll have to think fast. However, it's better to think first than to think fast.

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.

When I was a kid and I'd be in trouble. I'd ask God to help me, and then once the fire was out, I wouldn't talk to Him anymore. When I got older, I began to find I needed some help spiritually, just to function.

The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes.

When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.

But Mitt Romney understands, like I understand, that people - not governments - create jobs.

What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos.

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

I have absolute respect for Israel and people in Israel who are critical of their own country.

I'll sleep in my clothes sometimes. I sleep in my clothes all the time, actually - in my coat. I just hate getting changed for bed; I like the idea of falling asleep in a natural way.

I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit.

I do like to explore evil characters in my books.

From the beginning... I wanted to build a company that could sustain not for two years or four years or even ten years but be something that really matters over time the way Amazon and Google and others have.

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.

Life is too precious to be left to chance.

I buy some art but I don't like to talk about it.

In any dispute, each side thinks it's in the right and the other side is demons.

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

Something that always fascinated me was the psychology and the psychology differences between men and women and how we relate to one another.