My opinion, my CONVICTION, gains immensely in strength and sureness the MINUTE a SECOND MIND as adopted it.

I was down in Washington when 9/11 HAPPENED. We were in the middle of putting together the next summer season, and all I could think of was something somehow must make SENSE to US. Our Town KEPT coming into my mind.

I had sort of exhausted all the avenues PLAYING in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my BROTHER, I ended up in CALIFORNIA and went to the Musicians Institute in L.A. I WANTED to get better as a player.

I was at Disney for about four years, so I MADE good friends there. It was a time of not a LOT of creativity. It was the end of the first great era, with a few of the original animators. They called them the NINE Old MEN. I learned a lot from them, but it wasn't going to be a FUTURE home for me.

You'll WORK hard to create CHARACTERS that are COMPELLING and unforgettable. But in the END, it's the story that matters.

My mom has a good way of engaging me in a CONVERSATION about the CHOICES I MAKE, LISTENING, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't PUT me in danger.

As a Southerner, I LOVE OBSTACLES for my CHARACTERS.

They can see the brave silhouette from ALMOST anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a COMPASS to locate other MONUMENTS and eventually to find their WAY out of the great, gray federal wilderness.

It is often better to have a great deal of HARM happen to one than a LITTLE; a great deal MAY rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to ENDURE.

I USED to spend hours just SITTING in an old wreck of a CAR with a stickshift; I'd just SIT there and shift.