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

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

When I'm working as a director, I might have an idea of my own but I'm also trying to get great ideas out of my actors. 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 2 and 500 people asking you a billion questions.

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

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

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've never been a puppeteer, I conceive and I write and I design and I direct. And not just puppets. I direct actors, I direct dancers, I direct singers, I direct films. I also direct puppeteers. I'm really a theatre maker, but there's not a word for that.