George Tillman Jr. Quotes

I don't use emojis. I go vintage.

It's new, it's improved, it's old fashioned.

I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future.

There's a sort of eternal, indefinable 20th century quality to 'BTAS.' We never really pegged the decade, but it's anytime in the 20th century, so I often harkened back to things from the '40s or '50s.

It's funny the more technological advanced everything gets, the more like acting in your bedroom when you're a kid it is.

Every minute spent worrying about 'the way things were' is a moment stolen from creating 'the way things can be'

There has to be an entry point to learn about myself, or an idea I've never tried, because then I can try on a new skin and see the world through a different perspective. If I have that spark, then I'll save the file.

There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it, and since, in art, the way of saying a thing becomes a part of what is said, every work of art is unique and requires fresh attention.

I think that all human systems require continuous renewal. They rigidify. They get stuff in the joints. They forget what they cared about. The forces against it are nostalgia and the enormous appeal of having things the way they always have been, appeals to a supposedly happy past. But we've got to move on.

I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable — how we decide what is valuable.

What really makes it an invention is that someone decides not to change the solution to a known problem, but to change the question.

The only way you improve is to try new things.

The role of design at a company is to allow you to recreate yourself, to allow your company to find a new way of success before the old way fails.

I think it's necessary to keep moving forward. I've always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.

The past is able to close round certain moments, as if they were seeds, and deliver them again fresh and living in the present.

Sometimes, something seems dead, and then out of the blue, someone just figures out the way to fix a script and it goes.

What’s old doesn’t need to be old-fashioned. It gets reborn.

We are in a very strange way going back to the mentality of the time when Americans went in covered wagons. I imagine they had a piece of cloth, and the piece of furniture they carried with them meant to be a good piece of wood, and sturdy. We're going back to that.

If you hold on to things long enough, they get back into style. Like me.

The only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out.

I did see [in Afghanistan] plenty that reminded me of my childhood. I recognised my old neighbourhood, saw my old school, streets where I had played with my brother and cousins.

I find that so many times when somebody tries to go back in, it sort of isn't as good and you wish they hadn't done it.

If your franchise has been around for awhile you have to find ways to keep it fresh.

So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be.

Let me hold on to this the way it was, before I knew anything else.