Marc Platt Quotes
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Adaptations, especially movie musicals, are really hard to do.
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If we members of the Jewish community don't support the Jewish organizations, nobody else will.
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Many actors in films are willing to go to Broadway, and screenwriters are writing plays. It's almost commonplace.
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I loved being a film executive. But something was always missing for me. I always had the feeling that I was looking over my shoulder - what's going on on Broadway?
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That's what makes live TV exciting - the unknown!
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The theme of 'A Christmas Story' is that you can count on Christmas - that everybody has a Christmas story. Everybody has that time in the holiday season that they remember.
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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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The further you get up the corporate ladder, the farther you get from the actual filmmaking process.
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The film world is always looking for great source material, and Broadway has traditionally and historically been a place to go.
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I have a certain kind of a taste for what will make a good movie or a good play or theater.
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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.'
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I was always interested in storytelling, particularly in theater and film. I liked creative things. My mom and dad are wonderful people, but both are tone deaf, so I don't know where the gene came from.
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One of the secrets of 'A Christmas Story' is that it's a relatable story. They feel like our family.
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I have creative ADD.
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When I first started in the business, it was hardly ever done. But today, it almost feels like studios go out and preview movies knowing full well that they're going to use the information they get to go back and reshoot.
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Even in a manuscript form, 'The Girl on the Train' sort of leapt off the pages as a contemporary suspense drama-slash-thriller. It has all the mechanics of a thriller, but at the heart of it was a great character study.
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I'm lucky that I get to do the bigger movies and the smaller movies.
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One of my skills is knowing, 'This is where I'm needed, and this is how I'm needed and where I'm going to be in control and where I'm going to cede control and why.'
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Navigating the studio system has its own challenges, and, as a producer, you want to be astute and clever.