My approach is to 100 percent get the concept and the visual right. Get the client to love the space. Once they love the space, everything's possible.

Once we have a nice, conceptual sketch and rendering and design approved, then it's really about pinpointing what's functional and what's not, because functional equals expensive.

Budget affects everything.

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.

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

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

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.