For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than themselves. That feeling of awe, of going to a cathedral, it's all about feeling lost in something bigger than oneself. To me, that's the definition of spectacle.

Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

I don't want to be in an art bubble.

As a director, I never feel that I have the answers.

The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.

Creativity and the world of the imagination - the beauty of what we see as a child and the kind of play that we experience as a child - can be a way for us to survive tough times.