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I love photography... I'd like to write a show about photography.

When you're young, you envision happiness in such an idealized way.

As you get older, you realize happiness involves a lot of problems.

I need an audience to look at what I've done so I can understand it, so I can step back and watch them respond and figure out what they're understanding about what I'm trying to do and what they're confused about.

There are certain images that always haunt me.

I love the visual aspect of the theater. But I like what people have to say, too.

I've grown more and more appreciative of good writing, and I now really hope I can become a better and better writer.

The one thing you don't want to do is go off and keep rewriting. If something's not quite right, it's often about modulating what's already there.

I am an off-Broadway, nonprofit kind of guy.

You can't be theoretical when you're building a musical.

Sometimes good news is hard to absorb.

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.

Something I like to do is watch someone else do their thing.

Fairy tales cross generational lines, and how you respond to them depends on when in your life you're seeing them.

Good musicals, a strange world, seem so easy. People say, 'Ohhh, it's magic.' Nothing's magic. A thing doesn't jell. Adapt. Change the rhythm. Shorten the scene. Rewrite the character. Maneuver the waters. Seeming easy is why so many shows aren't good.

The nice thing about the theatre is you can always change it. With a movie, once it's there, you're stuck with it.

Most musicals are real crowd pleasers.

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.

I just don't really think of career. I've never been driven by career.

I designed a theater magazine that was full of plays and essays about the theater, and then I worked at a theater school. By osmosis or something, I was learning from reading plays and not being analytical about them, but when I would read them, the joy in me was mostly from imagining them in my head and visualizing them.

I think visually... so, even when I'm writing a play, I'm envisioning it.

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.

We live in an era of reinvention: Madonna and everybody desperately trying to change their persona.

I am thrilled to receive the Sondheim Award from the wonderful Signature Theatre. I have already received the invaluable gift of over twenty-five years of collaboration and friendship with Steve. Now I get to have his award, too!

I don't do movie junket-y things, because I don't really do movies that much.

I've ended up working with Disney a lot, which is kind of peculiar. In theater, I've done a couple of projects with them and written a couple movies and whatnot.

Fairy tales, which teach a moral lesson, are about ourselves. Myth deals with forces greater than ourselves.

I'm drawn to dreams.

That's the thing about dreams - they're ineffable. If you can get to the bottom of it, it's not a dream.

I'm a very laid-back person.

I like to keep a low profile.

The music is the emotional substance of the show; the book just sets it up. Nobody goes to a musical to hear the book. That's the way it works.

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