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" A lot of the reason the Universal version of 'Heights' went away is that they were afraid they didn't have a big enough Latino star to bankroll this movie. The people I dealt with at the studio who wanted to make this movie were very passionate about it. "
Enough
People
Heights
" Anytime you write something, you go through so many phases. You go through the 'I'm a Fraud' phase. You go through the 'I'll Never Finish' phase. And every once in a while you think, 'What if I actually have created what I set out to create, and it's received as such?' "
You
Create
Finish
" Because of the success of 'Hamilton' and 'On Your Feet!' you can't hide behind the old argument of, 'It needs to be bankable, so we can't put all these people of color in the show.' We are bankable. "
Success
Color
Feet
" Biggie and Big Pun were the best storytellers of the '90s. I would get wrapped up in the narrative of what they were talking about. "
Up
Pun
Narrative
" Everything we know about Hamilton, we knew when he was alive, because he told us. "
Alive
He
Us
" History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it. "
History
Determines
Subjective
" I always had an eye toward the stage for the story of Hamilton's life, but I began with the idea of a concept album, the way Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Evita' and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' were albums before they were musicals. "
Stage
Way
Story
" I can't say I have enough experience with Hollywood to feel that I've encountered racism there. I can tell you that I did about five fruitless years of auditioning for voiceovers where I did variations on tacos and Latin accents, and my first screen role was as a bellhop on 'The Sopranos.' "
Racism
Enough
You
" I couldn't possibly write 'Next to Normal,' but God, I can weep and watch 'Next to Normal' five times. "
Next
Watch
Write
" I don't differentiate between black and Latino actors. We're in the same struggle to be represented in a way that's even close to honest. And I can tell you that the amount of Latino characters I can point at and say, 'That's what my life experience looks like' - I can't think of any off the top of my head besides Jimmy Smits in 'Mi Familia.' "
Think
Black
Experience
" If Hamilton were on Twitter, he would have been a worse oversharer than me. "
Been
Me
Than
" If there is a Busta Rhymes of musical theater, it probably is Mandy Patinkin. "
Musical Theater
Rhymes
Theater
" I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. We just knew the rule was you're going to have to work twice as hard. "
Immigrant
Work
Hard
" I kind of need to be ambulatory to write lyrics. "
Lyrics
Kind
Need
" I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't write a book, because there's no applause at the end of writing a book. "
End
Writing
Way
" I like to separate the music- and lyric-writing processes if I can. I'll sort of noodle around on my keyboard and my computer until I have a beat or a chord progression, I'll record it as a loop, export it to iTunes, then walk around with the loop and sort of talk to myself in the loop, and that's how I get the lyrics. "
Myself
Music
Like
" I made a movie when I was 15 years old with all my friends. This is when IMDb was a little more lax with its proceedings, so it's listed as one of my projects. I was 15 years old; it's a terrible movie. I wrote 50 percent of it because I wanted to kiss this one girl, and I wrote a kissing scene for it. "
More
Friends
Kiss
" I'm honored to have been chosen as a fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. I am hugely appreciative for the support I have had throughout my life, and I look forward to using the grant to help institutions that have fed my soul and to support new work that inspires me. "
My Life
Work
Life
" In 'Hamilton,' we're telling the stories of old, dead white men, but we're using actors of color, and that makes the story more immediate and more accessible to a contemporary audience. "
Color
Dead
Men
" In the best works of fiction, there's no mustache-twirling villain. I try to write shows where even the bad guy's got his reasons. "
Write
Villain
Bad
" I only know how to write musicals. "
Only
Musicals
Know
" I think I'm always subconsciously trying to write the ideal school play. Lots of parts for everybody, great parts for women - don't forget, more girls try out than boys in the school play; everyone gets to be in the school play. "
Trying
Try
Think
" Making words rhyme for a living is one of the great joys of my life... That's a superpower I've been very conscious of developing. I started at the same level as everybody else, and then I just listened to more music and talked to myself until it was an actual superpower I could pull out on special occasions. "
Great
Life
More
" My only responsibility as a playwright and a storyteller is to give you the time of your life in the theatre. I just happen to think that with Hamilton's story, sticking close to the facts helps me. All the most interesting things in the show happened. "
Me
Responsibility
Time
" One of my first favorite books was 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would just go up to people and say, 'I can sing 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would make them sit through me reciting it, and I'd go all the way, each time. I've always hooked into lyrics. "
Time
Say
People
" Pretty much anything William Shatner is in is great. He's great at playing that 'I'm the only one sane in the world' character. "
Pretty
Playing
World
" Sometimes a line enters your head, and you're so grateful for it. You go online to check to see if anyone wrote it before you. You must have stolen it. "
See
You
Sometimes
" The fun for me in collaboration is, one, working with other people just makes you smarter; that's proven. "
Collaboration
Fun
Me
" The musicals that leave us kind of staggering on our feet are the ones that really reach for a lot. "
Leave
Feet
Kind
" The only other thing that's like video games for me is watching tennis on TV. I can have it on, and there's a rhythmic quality to it - I can be watching Wimbledon or the U.S. Open and still be working. "
Games
I Can
Me
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