I've had male executives say that my lead character was unlikable because she slept with a lot of guys.

One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it.

When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.

I think we all see the world from our own little unique bubble.

I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.

There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.

When you break into song, it's not about dialogue, it's not about how you would speak in a naturalistic sense-it's about expressing your inner torment or your inner joy.

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

What I don't have in theater is editing.

An artist is an entertainer, number one - a storyteller who takes people someplace, who gives them what they didn't know they wanted.

Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist.

There’s a fine line between support and stalking and let’s all stay on the right side of that.

People come and go in our life but memories stays for ever.

Communication happens on the periphery between two minds while communion melts two beings into one! What are YOU?

You sure about this writer thing son?

You have to believe in yourself before the world has given you any indication that you should believe in yourself as a writer.

When I wanna be a superhero I just wake up.

Is it easy to avoid paparazzi? It is, it really is.

I think squats is a generic thing - you can do squats with anything. That's the great thing about it. As long as you get in a safe position to do it.

I grew up in Honolulu. It's not the ballet cultural mecca by any stretch of the imagination. People are much more familiar with hula than they are with ballet.

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.