Marc Platt Quotes
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TV has the unique opportunity to take musicals, live events, so it has that feeling and excitement and spontaneity, but still has a camera between you and what you are watching.
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The character we've always thought of as the Wicked Witch of the West is a green girl who's actually very good, misunderstood, and trying to make her way in the world. She's an outsider looking in, wanting to be loved. That's a universal experience that everyone's felt at some point in their lives.
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I appreciate actors who work very hard to get at the truth of the character they're playing. That speaks to me, and I try to protect that process because I value the focus and intention behind it.
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I always appreciate hard work, and every actor has a different process. I appreciate focus.
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What makes 'A Christmas Story' universal, whether you celebrate Christmas or not, is that you recognize that family... It's ultimately about a family being glued together for the holiday season.
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I always believe that a good story will find its audience and that it will attract different kinds of elements of creative people who will make it more compelling.
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Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.
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I do love being amongst creative people and facilitating that and being inspired by people. I get very bored with just competence and require inspiration all around me.
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Music has a way of getting inside all of us and lifting us up.
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As a producer, when you get to work with a filmmaker who is joyful about making films, you want to do it again and again.
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It was just the DNA of my family. Giving back didn't feel like an entitlement; it was an obligation.
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I do love storytelling.
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We're all human beings; people make mistakes.
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My personal challenge is always balance. My life has a lot of compartments to it, and I care about each of them deeply. So I wake up each day thinking, 'How am I going to balance today?'
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As a producer, it's your job to bang on the table and convince studio heads why great movies should be made.
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Ever since I was a kid, I dreamed about working in the theater.
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Watching familiar characters take unexpected turns is very appealing.
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There's certain people you want to see in comedies; there's certain people you just want to see in dramas. Not that there aren't individuals who do both, but it's not everyone.
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Some of the metaphors you find in 'Wicked' - how those in power can exploit fear in others to maintain their power - I think, as Jews, we've seen that historically on more than one occasion.
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I saw 'Into the Woods' maybe 26 times in various incarnations. I'm very familiar with it.
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I'm very competitive, and I want to be very successful, but at the end of the day, films to me are still films. I want them to be good, and I'll work the hardest, but at night, I go home to my life and my family, and that's where my heart lies.
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I do remember feeling, 'I don't ever want to feel impotent in terms of what I can control in a business in which you can have very little control.' And that motivated me to go to law school - that, and my parents saying, 'Go to law school before you do anything.'
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The notion of someone who is fitting in or trying to become part of a larger family... It's hard to separate that from my own Jewish roots.
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Adaptations, especially movie musicals, are really hard to do.