I saw bubbling lava, and at the same moment I saw a reflection of a certain kind of inner turmoil. Because at the moment I looked into that crater, I slipped, and a large piece of volcanic rock took a hole out of my leg. The scar is still there 20, 30 years later. But it's one of those things that reminds you of the kind of risk or the kind of moment in order to push yourself.

In a way, artists are shamans, facilitators who take what's there, channel it through themselves, then put it out there for people to appreciate.

I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.

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

I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.

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

What I don't have in theater is editing.