Budget affects everything.

If the person or artist doesn't touch it, and if the camera stays relatively far away from it, it doesn't really have to be real.

I think unscripted variety television may or may not get a bad rap now, but it is a fabulous environment. It is exactly who I am, and there's so much creativity there to express.

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 you just turn around and look at your office door, there's a door, and there's something behind it.

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 art, fine art, and architecture my entire life.

Just to give the audience a breath of fresh air is important.

Producers are looking to me to concept full worlds for subjects to compete, play a game show in, win an award, blah blah blah.