Marc Platt Quotes
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It's hard to get an inner dialogue in a film. It's not cinematic. But in a musical, the character can just turn to the audience and sing.
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Good movies beget other good movies. So when a movie captures the imagination and hearts of people around the world, it's going to have a positive influence on similar genres getting made.
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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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Hollywood is what I do. It's not who I am.
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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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We always love actors taking unexpected turns.
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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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Winning an Oscar attracts the attention of directors and other actors and creates a boost in salary, particularly for someone like Halle Berry. For an established star like Denzel Washington, the benefits are less tangible.
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With 'Shinobi,' we hope to make a film that honors the essence of the games.
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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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I saw 'Into the Woods' maybe 26 times in various incarnations. I'm very familiar with it.
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'Defying Gravity' is a big, theatrical, grand gesture. In film, how do you match that?
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James McAvoy is not an action star.
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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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Adaptations, especially movie musicals, are really hard to do.
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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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'A Christmas Carol' and 'It's a Wonderful Life,' are movies we love with magic in them.
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Stephen Sondheim is calculus for actors. The words are witty and brilliant and profound but complicated.
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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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The themes and ideas embedded in 'Into the Woods' always spoke to me.
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I think too many people in Hollywood perhaps fail to make a distinction between the political side of Israel and the notion of the country. And they can be separate things.
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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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When a writer gets a second chance to look back on something, it's a great opportunity to say, 'Hey, this is really good, but we can do it even better.'