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.

My God, it transformed me. My life changed.

Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist.

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.

People will justify whatever for a good cause.

You just have to throw fear out the window. If there's anything that's going to hold you back, it's fear.

Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.