We're really having a problem right now in our culture. I haven't seen one movie lately in which the story and visuals have been equally good.

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.

Everything is subjective.

There is this great idea about the logic of a politician, along the lines of: "Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.

Art is rearranging and grouping mistakes.

It doesn't seem to be worth wasting a lot of energy on attempting to rewrite the past.

How much beer is in German intelligence?

More or less Europe - that's the wrong alternative! What we need is less centralism.

For things to change, you have to change.

I love men who know when to put their foot down and when not to.

I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor.

Engineering is merely the slow younger brother of physics.