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

I want to experience a performance on all levels - I want goose bumps and I want to leave the movie or play arguing about something that's unresolved.

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

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

What I adore is the juxtaposition of high tech and low tech. It's sort of like I love the sacred and the profane. I love to put these extremes in the same hopper.

Everything amounts to nothing if you don't love someone or something.

Going to the Far East was my first eye-opener to a world vastly different from my own. Then when I was 16 I lived in Paris for a year and studied mime. At 21 I went to Indonesia. I had planned to go for three months, but I stayed four years. I just got lost in the culture.