A performance can have amazing visuals and special effects, but it has to tell a good story, even if that story isn't original.

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

We're really having a problem right now in our culture. I haven't seen one movie lately in which the story and visuals have been equally good.

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.

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films.

I am, to be quite honest, sick of hero stories.