It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.

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.

You just have to throw fear out the window. If there's anything that's going to hold you back, it's fear.

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

I've never been a puppeteer, I conceive and I write and I design and I direct. And not just puppets. I direct actors, I direct dancers, I direct singers, I direct films. I also direct puppeteers. I'm really a theatre maker, but there's not a word for that.

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 two and 500 people asking you a billion questions.

The idea that all violence in movies is okay simply because it happens is bull. Directors and writers have a responsibility.