"I think that moving into opera is sort of reconciling my love for musical storytelling and my desire to stretch and grow as an artist and to continue to challenge myself in new ways."
"I feel very lucky that I've been able to, in a way, fail at certain parts of the theatrical tradition in order to learn things. We're all trying to create something together and having the opportunity to simply exist is how you learn and how you grow."
"The tragedy in this movie is that at the heart of it is this unrequited love story, which is a very, almost adolescent kind of pain. But that pain is magnified by the pain of the catastrophe in the background."