Move in space with minimum waste and maximum joy.
Apartments are getting smaller on a whole. Houses are getting smaller. People don't need great big vacuums anymore.
I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.
I don't actually keep the dresses I've worn during other friends' weddings. Closets are small in New York City - I can't be squandering space on bridesmaid dresses.
I don't like rooms you never use or that are wasted space but I also like a sparseness and a cleanness.
In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.
I put urinals in all my houses. They save marriages.
I've only ever seen a couple tiny home spaces that are actually a clever use of space.
The best mobile phone had the best mathematician. They know how to fit a huge amount of data into a small amount of space. How to do things efficiently, how to do them cleverly.
I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Viola! Bookshelves!
It seems that 'rocket scientist' is a job category that's here for the long haul, like 'mortician.' But all this activity masks an important point: rockets are not a terribly efficient way to lift things into space.
I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.
The only thing I learned from the architecture is keep the bathroom and the kitchen near each other, so you don't have to run pipes all over the place.
When we built Amblin, we even put Murphy beds in there because we thought that was so practical. Why would anybody, if you were working on something, need to go home at night? You'd just stay there, wake up in the morning, and carry on.
I think kitchen real estate is very valuable, so something has to perform multiple functions for me to give it space in my drawers.
You wouldn't want to land on the Moon and launch to Mars. That would be very inefficient.
Anything humans can do in space, robots can do better.
More and more department stores are acting as the shop window for a range of retailers now, using space more efficiently to recreate the feel of the local market, creating new market opportunities for the small and the niche.
I stay in one room, and it's easier to live there, to control it, to make it warm. It seems to me a convenient way to live, and it's cheap.
