I always want to be telling stories in whatever fashion I can, and directing is really just understanding and learning a different element of that storytelling process.

As an actor, it's my job to make everything interesting and exciting and new. If I'm not doing my job well, then I'm stealing.

I like the consistency of a TV show, but I like it for three months out of my year, not nine.

One of the great things about being an actor is it serves a short attention span, which is something I have.

What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Being a writer involves writing. You've got to commit to sitting down and writing instead of Xbox or Netflix.

I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.