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

In America, the word art has become like the word adultery. It's this big scarlet letter. When you say you're an artist, people are like, "Ugh."

When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.

Americans are attracted to the dark side. But which movies should be allowed to be violent and show that dark side, and which should not? I don't believe in censorship, but I do think there are horrible movies that are bad for you.

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.