You program music with an image and then people are desensitized.

I'm a firm believer in the idea that theater excels over film and TV in its ability to let people play with poetry.

My God, it transformed me. My life changed.

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.

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

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

Spider-Man is a genuine American myth with a dark, primal power, but it's also got this great superhero, and - hey! - he can fly through the theater at 40 miles an hour. It's got villains, it's got skyscrapers, it's colorful, it's Manhattan. I knew it would be a challenge, but I saw the inherent theatricality in it, and I couldn't resist.