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

I want to experience a performance on all levels - I want goose bumps and I want to leave the movie or play arguing about something that's unresolved.

I've never been a puppeteer, I conceive and I write and I design and I direct. And not just puppets. I direct actors, I direct dancers, I direct singers, I direct films. I also direct puppeteers. I'm really a theatre maker, but there's not a word for that.

The idea that all violence in movies is okay simply because it happens is bull. Directors and writers have a responsibility.

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

I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.

There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.