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


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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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.



What I don't have in theater is editing.

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.

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.

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.



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.

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.





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The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against the amount of men's talk than against the expectation of female silence.

The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against the amount of men's talk than against the expectation of female silence.



Perhaps it was a passing moment of madness after all. There is no trace of it any more. My odd feelings of the other week seem to me quite ridiculous today: I can no longer enter into them.

Perhaps it was a passing moment of madness after all. There is no trace of it any more. My odd feelings of the other week seem to me quite ridiculous today: I can no longer enter into them.



Irresolution on the schemes of life I which offer themselves to our choice and inconstancy in pursuing them are the greatest causes of all unhappiness.

Irresolution on the schemes of life I which offer themselves to our choice and inconstancy in pursuing them are the greatest causes of all unhappiness.



One of the reasons some people get so angry with me is because I have the space now that a lot of others who think like me don't.

One of the reasons some people get so angry with me is because I have the space now that a lot of others who think like me don't.



I couldn't help but think, This car is taking me to a mental hospital and my mother is treating it like open-mic night at a Greenwich Village café.

I couldn't help but think, This car is taking me to a mental hospital and my mother is treating it like open-mic night at a Greenwich Village café.



It is better to solve one problem five different ways, than to solve five problems one way.

It is better to solve one problem five different ways, than to solve five problems one way.



And thus we see that by small means the Lord can bring about great things" - 1 Nephi 16:29

And thus we see that by small means the Lord can bring about great things" - 1 Nephi 16:29



Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.

Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.



I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.



The power you have over someone who loves you is greater than any other power you'll ever have.

The power you have over someone who loves you is greater than any other power you'll ever have.




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