We tried to use music and drama -- theater as well as science -- to achieve that connection.

I love pure music, but you get a more complete package with opera. It's theater, it's music, it's drama, it's scenic design.

It's a channel for the creation generation. It's not just TV and film, it's dance, music, theater, drama. It's art.

It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams.

The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart.

It's not a guessing game. Most aquariums are linear — you walk on one path, one way. We chose to be nonlinear. You come into a central area, and then you make the choice of where you want to go.