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

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.

I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.

My God, it transformed me. My life changed.

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.

Some people become dullards, but as children we are all creative. It's in the programming, the socialization, that we lose our sense of play.

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.