People have become so literal because they're used to reality-based television.

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.

Love, kindness, compassion and forgiveness are divine.

You only fail in life when you decide to give up.

Dogs are actually very smart, it's just that they're rather clumsy, but it's this trait that makes humans attracted to them and why I love dogs so much.

You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

I am alone. There is no God where I am.

When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.

I think if a woman is feeling aggressive, she should be aggressive and not hold back.

but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.

I guess a lot of police keep their sanity by developing black humour.

It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed.