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.

I think we all see the world from our own little unique bubble.

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

You just have to throw fear out the window. If there's anything that's going to hold you back, it's fear.

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.

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.