You just have to throw fear out the window. If there's anything that's going to hold you back, it's fear.

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.

In any country where there is a dishonorable government, there is certainly a dishonorable nation!

My savage indignation toward injustice is proportionate to my profoundly reverent connection with beauty.

If the nose of Cleopatra had been a little shorter the whole face of the world would have been changed.

Some names to look forward to - perhaps in the future

I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.

It seems to me that we spend an inordinate amount of time and attention on fixing ourselves when we could really be directing that out to serving others.

When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy.

I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.

Ideology is: intellectual ordering of the feelings; an objective connection among them that makes the subjective connection easier.

Inside the boundaries of the old paradigm there's no hope, there's no way out of the box of capitalism, monogamy, consumer fetishism, egoism, money worship, no way out. No way. No way out!