I want to experience a performance on all levels - I want goose bumps and I want to leave the movie or play arguing about something that's unresolved.

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.

The line between the living and the dead may not be much of a line at all, but the terrain is not for the weak of heart.

Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System.

The Olympics are great. For two weeks we become absolutely fascinated in these people we've never heard of before and will never think of again.

The thing about photography is, some people surround themselves with extremely strong subject matter. And unless you're a moron, you're going to get a really strong photograph.

I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs. - Elinor

The first step towards madness is to think oneself wise.

Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.

Whether conservative or liberal, fundamentalist or agnostic, the more students learn of biology, the more they accept evolution.

Isn't it fortunate how selective our recollections usually are.

I try to know what I need to know. I make sure to know what I want to know. (Nero Wolfe)