That's my policy - to be positive, to just hope that something will happen. If you start with all your fears, your receptivity is for the negative.

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.

No freedom till we're equal. Damn right I support it.

In this manner, we are told, the system of the imaginary is spread circularly, by detours and returns the length of an empty subject.

A woman in love is her most lovely. A relationship end does not change that unless she lets it.

Our parents were musicians.

The outside of any building may now come inside and the inside go outside, each seems as part of the other. Continuity, plasticity, and all the new simplicity the imply have at last come home.

By needlessly provoking him [Vladimir Putin] and humiliating him, we empower far worse possibilities in Russia.

The Senate has been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity.

I have an obsession with Milk Duds. Eating them tastes like heaven.

Evil has only the power we give it.

I try to do something physical every day. I don't go heavy every day, though.