I believe that if you really have a strong idea, you can say, "What do you think? Let's see how my idea plays off yours."

I believe that if you really have a strong idea, you can say, "What do you think? Let's see how my idea plays off yours."

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.

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 growing up, there were a lot more arts in the public schools. Politically, America has screwed up on that.

Some people become dullards, but as children we are all creative. It's in the programming, the socialization, that we lose our sense of play.

What I don't know for sure is what's next for me - and I don't mind that. I know for sure that whatever happens will be interesting and will challenge and excite me.