Directing is much more psychological-it's a lot like being a general. And you have to be organized. While you're making a film, you have between two and 500 people asking you a billion questions.

I lived in Indonesia for four years and I understand trance and magic and where it comes from.

I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape.

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.

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

I love directing Shakespeare on film. It's fantastic that the actors would do exactly the same thing and be true to their part.