I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself.

But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.

I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.

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

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

When I was growing up, there were a lot more arts in the public schools. Politically, America has screwed up on that.

When you break into song, it's not about dialogue, it's not about how you would speak in a naturalistic sense-it's about expressing your inner torment or your inner joy.