We tell myths over and over again, lest we forget who we are, lest we not understand that these tales take us through the darkness of our lives, and they put us into a place where you understand what it is to be human.

When I was growing up, there were a lot more arts in the public schools. Politically, America has screwed up on that.

People will justify whatever for a good cause.

Some of my ideas for film or theater come to me in dreams. I'm also very creative when I'm talking to others. I believe in collaboration.

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.

An artist is an entertainer, number one - a storyteller who takes people someplace, who gives them what they didn't know they wanted.

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.