If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then its a failure. – Doug Coupland
When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, theyre going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and theyre going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture. – Doug Coupland
Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people. – Doug Coupland
Canadians can easily pass for American as long as we dont accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car. – Doug Coupland
By the way, movies are like sporting events in that youre as good as the movie youre in. You can sit in a room for 20 years and go do a movie and you can just kill in it and you move to the head of the line again. By the same token, you can do five movies a year and if theyre dreck, its nothing. – Albert Brooks