I am playing in a playground that's already been played in. I am always aware that a lot of the furniture in science fiction is second hand.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.
I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.
When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.
To come into my world, I've got some M&Ms and some potato chips, and I'm asking you to move furniture. We're making a movie. We're making it like we're putting on a play.
A lot of designers still have nostalgia for the past. As for the furniture in the future, I hope they use less of real wood. Conservation in wood is necessary.
The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.
It is sometimes easier to have furniture made than to find things.
At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture.
The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.
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