'Every normal day for me is a fun day and a very creative day, and I hit the ground running. I rise with the birds at between 5am and 6am, but have probably also woken in the middle of the night to scribble down an idea that has occurred to me while asleep, because I hate thinking I will forget any of the wonderful ideas that come to me in the middle of the night.
I usually get onto my computer when I first get up because I find writing soothing and relaxing, which probably goes back to my days as an English literature and creative arts major at university. Writing has been a major part of my job and many productions I have directed over the course of my career.
If I don't get up and turn on the computer, I listen to music - my other great passion. I wanted to teach when
I left college, hence my majors. Despite Walt Disney not playing an instrument himself, he believed in music and loved marching bands, so everything I am involved with springs from the musical story of an event. I tell anyone who wants to direct that writing and music go hand in hand and are major components of what is required as a director, especially for an organisation such as the Walt Disney Company.
I have a wonderful job working for global entertainment at Disney Creative Entertainment in Glendale, California.
I am called an 'imagineer' because Walt [Disney] coined that wonderful term, which is a combination of 'engineer' and 'imagination' and he stuck them together and liked it.