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

I was a gay kid in high school in the late '90s, and I was in theater club. I was never a thespian. I was much more of a lighting guy or a backstage guy. Because I wanted to do something easy for the rest of my life, I thought, "Maybe I'll go and apply to colleges that specialize in theater set design. I'll do that. That's what I want to do". With theater, really, I'd be around the gays.

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

I'm being totally honest, but I really do get chills every time I see something that I designed, painted on the biggest stage in Universal, standing proud there among all the other stages. I think, "That is so amazing that I did this".

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.

The word "budget" is the idea-killer. It slaughters any idea.

I'm 36, and sometimes I'm working so hard I don't realize how much I've gotten done.