I am creative in my living space - the designer in me helps that out.

One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it.

I call myself a playmaker sometimes - but that's just a word. I don't feel like I have to have a title or a job description.

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."

In a way, artists are shamans, facilitators who take what's there, channel it through themselves, then put it out there for people to appreciate.

When we were kids, you picked up a little paper and put it on a stick; and when you waved it back and forth, you understood the power of air underneath the wings. In that way, a child begins to understand abstraction, poetry, metaphor, symbolism. You play with the materials you have and use your imagination to make them into something else. That what's so sad about having everything on a little screen - it's not physical and dimensional, and that seems backward.

What I don't have in theater is editing.