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

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.

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.

I want to experience a performance on all levels - I want goose bumps and I want to leave the movie or play arguing about something that's unresolved.

Work always makes a difference.

I went back to being an amateur in the sense of somebody who loves what she is doing. If a professional loses the love of work routine sets in and that's the death of work and life.

There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.

Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.

Cecil Jacobs is a big wet hen!

To understand the truth is to do the truth.

Another view is Western companies chartered in societies that believe in this kind of censorship shouldn't be carrying water for societies that do.

Remember: Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural. All y'all's is plural possessive.

"Do not worry in the least about yourself, leave all worry to God" this appears to be the commandment in all religions.

We do have more control over our lives than any politician.