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.

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.

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.

We may pick and choose to graft different fruits onto our spiritual tree, but regardless of what we call it, others will see a confusing fruit salad.

Eat like you love your body.

The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.

Waste in all its forms is to be abhorred... I deplore giving money to an institution that is careless in its expenditures.

There are times when you just have to let it all out. All the anger, all the pain.

She was my first cat ever, and I thought she was marvelous.

One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us.

Popular congresses are the only means to achieve popular democracy. Any system of government other than popular congresses is undemocratic.

I never mixed with golfers when I was playing, mainly because I didn't want to talk golf all night.

The peace of God is not the absence of fear. It, in fact, is His presence.