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When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.

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I am, to be quite honest, sick of hero stories.

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You program music with an image and then people are desensitized.

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I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films.

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It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.

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But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.

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I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form.

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There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.

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I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.

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What I don't have in theater is editing.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: December 15th, 1952

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