I feel like style is like accent. You don't hear it on yourself, and then everyone's like, man, you got a strong accent.

These New York City streets get colder, I shoulder every burden every disadvantage I've learned to manage. I don't have a gun to brandish. I walk these streets famished.

I have been working on this movie [Moana] since before Hamilton happened.

I think every writer's had the experience of having a really good idea, waiting to write it, and then once you write it, you're like, "Oh I kind of got past the sell by date on this." I'm not connected to the initial spark that was the idea. A lot of that's about staying open.

Tuesdays and Thursdays, I didn't do any press, I didn't do any meetings, I just wrote all day, 'cause I'd meet, via Skype, with the creative team, at five p.m., and then I would have my seven o'clock curtain.

The theater should always be a safe space.

I've had a little Hollywood experience, and there's nothing like the Disney story experience.