Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions.

The only way the magic works is by hard work. But hard work can be fun.

As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.

I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends. We're all good friends.

You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing.

I know I drive some people crazy with what seems like ridiculous optimism, but it has always worked for me.

It all ends in one of two ways: either someone gets eaten or something blows up.