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Marc Platt, is quoted 63 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Producer, Christmas, Musicals and Broadway.

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Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.
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Communicate
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Music has a way of getting inside all of us and lifting us up.
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Lifting

Inside
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Adaptations, especially movie musicals, are really hard to do.
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Adaptation

Musicals
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Ever since I was a kid, I dreamed about working in the theater.
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Theater

Dreamed
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As much as I love storytelling, I've always been drawn to talent.
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Drawn
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I'm lucky that I get to do the bigger movies and the smaller movies.
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Smaller
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The themes and ideas embedded in 'Into the Woods' always spoke to me.
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Embedded

Woods

Always Me Ideas

Spoke

Themes
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Watching familiar characters take unexpected turns is very appealing.
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Familiar

Turns

Unexpected

Appealing
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With 'Shinobi,' we hope to make a film that honors the essence of the games.
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Essence

Honors
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'Defying Gravity' is a big, theatrical, grand gesture. In film, how do you match that?
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Defying

Theatrical

Gesture

Grand

Match
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I don't think anyone can ever predict a phenomenon. It's not something you can bank on.
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Phenomenon

Predict

Bank
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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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Christmas

Wonderful Life

Life Love Movies

Carol
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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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Familiar

Woods
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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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Good Movie
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If we members of the Jewish community don't support the Jewish organizations, nobody else will.
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Jewish Community

Nobody Else
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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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Dna

Entitlement

Giving Back

Obligation
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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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Christmas

Secrets
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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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Corporate

Filmmaking

Actual

Farther

Filmmaking Process

Ladder
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Musicals have long given voice to outsiders and speak of experiences in our culture and environment.
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Environment

Given

Outsiders

Speak

Voice

Experiences

Musicals
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Stephen Sondheim is calculus for actors. The words are witty and brilliant and profound but complicated.
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Brilliant

Calculus

Complicated

Profound

Sondheim

Witty
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Navigating the studio system has its own challenges, and, as a producer, you want to be astute and clever.
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Astute

Clever

Producer

Studio System
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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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Convince

Great Movies Your

Bang

Heads

Producer
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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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Broadway

Commonplace

Willing

Plays
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Thankfully, as much as Hollywood is interested in brands, I think people are still looking for originality and freshness.
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Brands

Freshness

Hollywood

Originality

Interested

Thankfully
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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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Joyful

Work Who Want

Producer
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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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Diverse

Pool
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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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Broadway

Great Always World

Film World

Great Source

Historically

Material

Source Material
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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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Cinematic

Inner
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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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Fitting

Notion

Roots

Fitting In
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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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Musical

Noise

Sequels

Franchise

Marvel
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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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Great Opportunity

Hey

Second Chance

Good Great Chance
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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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Compelling

Creative People

Different Kinds

Elements

Good Story

Good Always Believe

Good Believe People

Attract

Good Believe Always
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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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Broadway

Missing

Executive

Me Looking Always

Shoulder
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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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Bored

Competence

Creative People

Love Me People

Require
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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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Los Angeles

Wicked

Angeles

Embraced

Heartily

Los

Thrilled

Welcomed
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I love getting up in the morning. I love coming to my office. I love going to movie sets. It's really what every parent wishes for their kid - to do what makes them happy.
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Sets

Wishes
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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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Distinction

Notion

Political Country People

Too Many People
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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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Christmas

Holiday

Holiday Season

Theme

Time Christmas Remember

Count
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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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People See Everyone

Comedies

Dramas
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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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Excitement

Spontaneity

Musicals

Unique Opportunity
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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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Each Day
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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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Positive Influence

Captures

Genres

Good Movies

Hearts

Similar
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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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Wicked

Exploit

Historically

Jews

Maintain

Metaphors

Occasion
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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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Christmas

Celebrate

Holiday

Holiday Season

Family Christmas Together

Glued
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