This is just spectacular, spectacular,

People will justify whatever for a good cause.

I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form.

It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.

Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.

I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.