Marc Platt Quotes
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Watching familiar characters take unexpected turns is very appealing.
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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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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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Hollywood is what I do. It's not who I am.
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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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The financial side of Broadway is the easy part. Plenty of people want to put money in a Broadway show. The challenging part is finding the material that excites me enough to spend a couple of years of my life devoted to it.
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We always love actors taking unexpected turns.
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In any adaptation, the challenge is to take the essence of the original source of the material, be faithful to it to a point, but to also recognize that you're telling a story in a very different medium. It has to exist on its own, and it has to offer something unique to that experience.
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As much as I love storytelling, I've always been drawn to talent.
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I want my projects to be great, of course. The talent has to come from a diverse pool. Because that's the world we live in.
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With 'Shinobi,' we hope to make a film that honors the essence of the games.
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James McAvoy is not an action star.
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'Wicked' has been one of the biggest hits in Los Angeles theatre history, and we are thrilled that theatergoers here have embraced the musical and welcomed us so heartily.
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You've got Marvel films, sequels, franchise movies, so much noise out there. You're trying to brand your entertainment. The musical is its own brand.
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Adaptations, especially movie musicals, are really hard to do.
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'Defying Gravity' is a big, theatrical, grand gesture. In film, how do you match that?
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Repression is the enemy of civilization - so keep dreaming, because the dreams we dream today will provide the love, the compassion, and the humanity that will narrate the stories of our lives tomorrow.
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'A Christmas Carol' and 'It's a Wonderful Life,' are movies we love with magic in them.
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Producers should have the courage of their convictions. See your project through to its fruition. Seek help and be generous enough to take on collaborators and not be territorial as you're learning.
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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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The themes and ideas embedded in 'Into the Woods' always spoke to me.
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Stephen Sondheim is calculus for actors. The words are witty and brilliant and profound but complicated.
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If we members of the Jewish community don't support the Jewish organizations, nobody else will.
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Thankfully, as much as Hollywood is interested in brands, I think people are still looking for originality and freshness.