Fairy tales, which teach a moral lesson, are about ourselves. Myth deals with forces greater than ourselves.
Fairy tales cross generational lines, and how you respond to them depends on when in your life you're seeing them.
We live in an era of reinvention: Madonna and everybody desperately trying to change their persona.
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 never so into the three-act movie thing. I know that's the form that people talk about, but it seems to me, in the movie, you just have to keep charging forward. You couldn't start over again like you do after an intermission. You just had to keep the plot moving forward.
When you're trying out on Broadway, it's very hectic, and you're making changes night after night. There's a lot of pressures from producers to make some changes, and you're writing for actors who are in it - and sometimes the limitations of actors who are in it.
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'm drawn to dreams.
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.
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.
