There are bound to be differences in any artistic collaboration with landscape elements, or theater, of lighting elements.

I had a dual role: designer and advocate.

New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.

PERFORMING TRIBUTE 9/11 shows the heroism of people who have chosen to respond to devastation and hatred with quiet determination and a belief that they can and will make the world a better place.

I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here.

I'm a little more measured. That sense of urgency I thought accompanied things - it can take a little longer. You have to take the long view.

It sounds really over the top to say you're responsible for the city of New York, but I do feel responsibility to the city of New York, to this country, to people everywhere. So many people were affected by the events of September 11, and I feel this is one of the ways that that event will be understood and defined.