“I always liked the visuals to be choice and at the same time minimalist. And, I love black boxes. After all, that's what theatre is, it's an empty space, and it's both limited and unlimited because...”

“I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.”

“Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.”

“There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.”

“You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic.”

“You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in ...”

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”

“Healing starts the moment you accept the truth about what has happened. But healing doesnt come quickly. When you know that death or pain has come, you face a moment when you stare that pain in the...”

“Collaboration is an inside-out mindset. It has to start on the inside, with the Heart.”

“When your heart is right, you want to bring out the best in others.”

“Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth.”

“The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again”

“Every eye makes its own perception.”

“I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.”