James Lapine Quotes
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In most audience-participation shows, the participant is so clearly not a part of what's going on that it's the fish-out-of-water aspect that makes it funny.
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I'd like to just say that there's nothing darker than 'Old Yeller' and 'Bambi' and some of the early Disney stuff.
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Some of the things I've done in my life, I've done to make money because I had to make money... and some things I did just because they were on my mind and they were of interest to me... some of the little plays I wrote.
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Most musicals are real crowd pleasers.
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Something I like to do is watch someone else do their thing.
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If you're like me and nosy, you're always eavesdropping on other people's conversations.
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The nice thing about the theatre is you can always change it. With a movie, once it's there, you're stuck with it.
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As you get older, you realize happiness involves a lot of problems.
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When you're young, you envision happiness in such an idealized way.
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I was a youngish man entering fatherhood when we wrote 'Woods,' a patchwork of classic fairy tales with an original tale sewn in. I had dedicated my libretto to my baby daughter.
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I'm a hippie child of the '60s. What drives me crazy about mass media entertainment is that it's so often devoid of any ideas.
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Meryl Streep's really smart, and she's a film animal, and she knows that.
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We live in an era of reinvention: Madonna and everybody desperately trying to change their persona.
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You can't be theoretical when you're building a musical.
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I really enjoyed writing the adaptation of 'Into The Woods.' I thought it was wonderful to not be the director, frankly. I really enjoyed that aspect of it.
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I love photography... I'd like to write a show about photography.
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When you grow up, you don't realize that your parents are any different than anybody else's. And their behavior - you have nothing to compare it to. So that is what normal is, even if it's abnormal.
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I'm drawn to dreams.
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I am an off-Broadway, nonprofit kind of guy.