Quotes About Adaptation

When something changes in Episode 7, you have to then begin moving things around, shuffling things backwards. Once you start moving material into it, that can derail your whole arc.

The simple fact of being a human being is you migrate. Many of us move from one place to the other. But even those who don't move, and you stay in the same city, if you were born in Manhattan 70 years ago, you're born in Des Moines 70 years ago, you've lived in the same place for 70 years, the city you live in today is unrecognizable.

I describe my years in Los Angeles as 12 years of culture shock.

I don't quite know what a record is anymore. I don't quite know how to describe it. Don't know how to define it yet, so I'm just letting it gestate, and grow and see if maybe I'll get a better sense of what a record is.

A cactus doesn't live in the desert because it likes the desert; it lives there because the desert hasn't killed it yet.

Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

I always thought that people who live in the desert are a little crazy. It could be that the desert attracts that kind of person, or that after living there, you become that. It doesn't make much difference. But now I've done my 40 years in the desert.

How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?

Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be.

The brain was designed by evolution, so each part of it is optimized for what it does, and it's incredibly, incredibly complex.

Every application designed for 2D interfaces will be obsoleted by AR.

As a designer looking to the future, you don't want to get lost in the archives.

Evolution, to me, is the best designer of all time.

I'm a designer, and for me, things are always evolving, and such evolution is necessary.

In terms of design, it's true the world has an influence. But, as a designer, you have to protect yourself. You have to look at the world and then forget it.

As a designer, as you get used to Kinect, it's such a different experience for me as a designer - for any designer.

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

You're sitting in the car for many, many minutes a day. Can that be part of your new office? Can it be your new desk, a place where you actually get work done? We believe it can.

So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.

The biggest challenge for any craft person or artist is to accept the constraints of their medium and make something beautiful despite them. That's kind of fun, actually.

I had one-and-a-half years of joy in Manchester, despite the city being a lot colder than Madrid!

Obviously, the opinion of the player is always important, because if I am not happy in a new destination it will be difficult to perform well.

Technology will eventually destroy the way schools are run now.