American - Producer | April 14, 1957 -
Hollywood is what I do. It's not who I am.
Marc Platt
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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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Adaptations, especially movie musicals, are really hard to do.
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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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The themes and ideas embedded in 'Into the Woods' always spoke to me.
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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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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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Navigating the studio system has its own challenges, and, as a producer, you want to be astute and clever.
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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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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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I'm lucky that I get to do the bigger movies and the smaller movies.
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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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