I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films.

Children have an easier ability to tap into the surreal than adults do, in a funny kind of way.

I am, to be quite honest, sick of hero stories.

What I don't have in theater is editing.

I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.

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

You don't have to patronize your audience, and you can mix art and commerce in a profound way. You can simultaneously play to the sophisticated, 60-year-old theatergoers and to 4-year-olds.