Daily Inspiration Quote by Robert Evans

A director warning that “scientific principles” can depress and constrain isn’t an anti-technology tantrum; it’s a shot at the fantasy of total control. Evans is poking at the modernist belief that if you optimize the variables - light, airflow, circulation, efficiency - you’ll optimize the human. The line lands because it treats architecture like another kind of script: when it’s written solely for logic, people are forced into roles they didn’t audition for.

The specific intent feels protective. Evans is defending the messy, irrational parts of human life that make art possible: distraction, surprise, privacy, contradiction. A building that is only “scientific” becomes a behavioral machine, quietly telling you where to walk, when to gather, how long to stay, what kind of person you’re allowed to be. That’s the subtext: the problem isn’t science; it’s exclusivity. “Exclusively” is the dagger. He’s warning about an environment that performs neutrality while smuggling in a worldview - usually corporate, managerial, or technocratic - that equates comfort with compliance.

Contextually, Evans is speaking from a 20th-century landscape shaped by utopian design and its hangovers: glass-box offices, urban renewal, fluorescent-lit institutions built to be measurable rather than memorable. As a filmmaker, he also understands mood as infrastructure. Set design teaches you that space edits emotion. When the built world is engineered only for efficiency, it doesn’t just look sterile; it trains people to think smaller, to take fewer risks, to stop improvising. Creativity needs friction, not just function.