I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.

The beauty of nature has been one of the great inspirations in my life.

Take what you got and fly with it.

A film is not done by one person. It's done by a lot of people. I love this whole collaborative aspect. When it works well, you end up with something better than any of us started out to do.

Music is an essential part of everything we do. Like puppetry, music has an abstract quality which speaks to a worldwide audience in a wonderful way that nourishes the soul.

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.

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