I feel that a picture that stays with you is made up of a hundred or more hidden things. They’re things that the audience is not conscious of, but that accumulate.

Once you find the right idea, then go ahead and embellish it.

But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects.

Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.

Color can do anything that black-and-white can.

The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride.

If you want to learn how to sing, listen to Ella Fitzgerald.