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."

What I don't have in theater is editing.

One of the reasons why I love to do Shakespeare is that this great artist was able to talk to a wide variety of audiences. He could do the bawdy plays and the humor and the clowns-as you know, because you're a wonderful Stephano-that speaks to the populace, the masses, the groundlings, whatever.

We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art.

I lived in Indonesia for four years and I understand trance and magic and where it comes from.

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.

People have become so literal because they're used to reality-based television.