I lived in Indonesia for four years and I understand trance and magic and where it comes from.

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

You don't have to patronize your audience, and you can mix art and commerce in a profound way. You can simultaneously play to the sophisticated, 60-year-old theatergoers and to 4-year-olds.

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

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

Americans are attracted to the dark side. But which movies should be allowed to be violent and show that dark side, and which should not? I don't believe in censorship, but I do think there are horrible movies that are bad for you.

That's my policy - to be positive, to just hope that something will happen. If you start with all your fears, your receptivity is for the negative.