An artist is an entertainer, number one - a storyteller who takes people someplace, who gives them what they didn't know they wanted.

I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form.

We tell myths over and over again, lest we forget who we are, lest we not understand that these tales take us through the darkness of our lives, and they put us into a place where you understand what it is to be human.

You program music with an image and then people are desensitized.

I'm a firm believer in the idea that theater excels over film and TV in its ability to let people play with poetry.

My aesthetic is not a Disney aesthetic at all, but when I met with the wonderful producers at Disney, they weren't looking for me to do their aesthetic. I'd already spent 20 years in the theater, so if they were going to hire me, they'd be hiring me for what I have to offer.

My God, it transformed me. My life changed.