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" As you get older, you realize happiness involves a lot of problems. "
Older
Problems
Happiness
" Fairy tales cross generational lines, and how you respond to them depends on when in your life you're seeing them. "
Lines
Respond
Seeing
" Fairy tales, which teach a moral lesson, are about ourselves. Myth deals with forces greater than ourselves. "
Teach
Lesson
Deals
" 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. "
Character
Good
People
" I am an off-Broadway, nonprofit kind of guy. "
Guy
Nonprofit
I Am
" 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. "
Head
Learning
Reading
" I just don't really think of career. I've never been driven by career. "
Career
Never
Just
" I like to keep a low profile. "
Keep
Low
Profile
" I love photography... I'd like to write a show about photography. "
Show
Write
Photography
" I love the visual aspect of the theater. But I like what people have to say, too. "
Theater
Visual
Like
" I'm a very laid-back person. "
Very
Person
" I'm drawn to dreams. "
Dreams
Drawn
" 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. "
Done
Understanding
Trying
" I've grown more and more appreciative of good writing, and I now really hope I can become a better and better writer. "
Writing
I Can
Hope
" 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. "
Woods
Daughter
Man
" Most musicals are real crowd pleasers. "
Real
Crowd
Most
" 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. "
Mind
Life
Done
" Something I like to do is watch someone else do their thing. "
Something
Like
Else
" Sometimes good news is hard to absorb. "
Good
Sometimes
News
" That's the thing about dreams - they're ineffable. If you can get to the bottom of it, it's not a dream. "
About
Dreams
Dream
" 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. "
Way
Emotional
Book
" The nice thing about the theatre is you can always change it. With a movie, once it's there, you're stuck with it. "
Nice
Always
Theatre
" 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. "
Go
Right
Off
" There are certain images that always haunt me. "
Always
Haunt
Images
" When you're young, you envision happiness in such an idealized way. "
Happiness
Way
Envision
" You can't be theoretical when you're building a musical. "
Theoretical
You
Musical
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