I love directing Shakespeare on film. It's fantastic that the actors would do exactly the same thing and be true to their part.

One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it.

When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.

I think we all see the world from our own little unique bubble.

I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.

There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.

When you break into song, it's not about dialogue, it's not about how you would speak in a naturalistic sense-it's about expressing your inner torment or your inner joy.

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

What I don't have in theater is editing.

An artist is an entertainer, number one - a storyteller who takes people someplace, who gives them what they didn't know they wanted.

Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist.

John F. Kennedy asked us what we could do for America. This Democratic Party asks what can government give you. Don't worry about paying the bill, it's on your kids and grandkids.

I think the biggest problem is parents are so concerned with being friends with their kids. You're not their friend. You're their parent.

I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.

Steve Yarbrough is a masterful storyteller-one of our finest-and Safe from the Neighbors is a masterpiece. . . . This is a spellbinding, powerful novel.

I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?

He that lives alone lives in danger; society avoids many dangers.

I feel like I'm kind of faking something if I'm talking as myself and putting on an accent.

If our country has to reach its economic goals, it cannot happen with half its population shut behind doors.

God is love. Wraith is how His love appears to us when we sin or rebel or run away from Him. The very light that is meant to help us appears to us as our enemy when we seek the darkness.

The only thing you must never speak of is your happiness.