Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.

Gotta watch out for directors.

For me it's more fun to find an unexpected moment for a character to sing when you don't expect them to.

The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.

White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.

I started listening to classical music when I was in my early teens. Prior to that, I listened to pop records or band records.

Sometimes I'll ask the book writer to write a monologue, not to be performed, just as if they were notes for the character.