What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing and dance. How can you not love that?

There's something about some of my favorite musicals that they put me in a sort of heightened state where I feel like I'm floating out of the theater rather than walking out.

There are no large-scale original musicals being made right now. They're all Broadway adaptations and jukebox musicals or catalog musicals, and they just don't interest me as much.

I love movies where you can sense that the director risked biting off more than they can chew.

I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.

If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.