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" The future for us is not to go bigger but to go different. "
Craig Zadan
Go
Different
Bigger
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" It's expensive to produce musicals on television. "
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" Live TV is the future. It's the only way you can beat the DVRing of America. Everything is DVRed, and no one watches stuff when it's on. Awards shows and sports are watched when they're broadcast. "
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" When we went to Judy Davis and said, 'We want you to play Judy Garland in the mini-series 'Life With Judy Garland,' she was shocked, but we just had an instinct about her. "
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Play
" To battle the odds - loss of interest, no funding, discouragement - requires someone who doesn't give up. "
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Loss
Odds
" It was very, very difficult to be a student in the drama department and also review my professors' school shows. I got a lot of pressure from them to quit the paper and concentrate on studying dramatic literature. "
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Quit
Pressure
" We'd never do 'The Sound of Music' because the movie was perfect. "
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Music
Perfect
Never
" We're finding that the casting of 'A Few Good Men' is different from the musicals because the kind of actors that you need to do it are movie actors, basically. "
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You
Need
" Neil and I are most thrilled that we were able to bring musical theatre to the enormous audience that 'The Sound of Music' reached. "
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Theatre
Audience
Bring
" It rests in the hands of 'Dreamgirls' and 'Hairspray.' If they're successful, we'll be back on track - people will continue to greenlight musicals. If they don't work, then you're going to see everyone go back to the way it was before 'Chicago.' "
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Successful
You
Hands
" The people with mean things to say, say them. At the end of the day, the mean things and the good things only drive viewership. So what do you want? You want the ratings. "
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Good Things
Drive
Good
" The truth of the matter is - when we look at things - every movie we do - no matter what the subject matter is - we go to the universal theme of family. We always go to that because if the movie is about family, then any audience can relate to it. "
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Look
Truth
Family
" Basically, we had the idea of doing this production of 'Steel Magnolias,' and we spoke to Queen Latifah about it, and she got excited. "
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Steel
Excited
Got
" We'd go to studios with ideas to do movie musicals and they'd literally kick us out. They said, 'Audiences aren't interested in movie musicals. You're wasting our time.' "
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Time
Said
Ideas
" I would say that, first of all, if you have the honor of being chosen to produce the Oscars, you usually get only one crack at it. We were the first people in sixteen years to do it three times in a row, and it was one of the most profound experiences you could ever imagine. "
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People
Say
Three
" There were no TV musicals until we did Bette Midler 'Gypsy,' and the success of that opened the door for us to do the rest. "
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Door
Success
Musicals
" I was captivated by Stephanie Mills. "
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Mills
Captivated
" In the past, once a movie musical was made, it was believed that you were left with that version, good or bad, for posterity. "
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Bad
In The Past
You
" It is very, very important that people understand that you can tell different kinds of stories, and they do, related to gay and lesbian issues - especially when you know the people behind them. "
Craig Zadan
Tell
You
Gay
" Some filmmakers set out to re-create the theater experience they got on Broadway. They kept everything the same. They shot the original casts. We reinvent the whole thing, look at it solely as a movie. We pretend that nobody saw 'Chicago' or 'Hairspray.' "
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Nobody
Chicago
Same
" We have a particular philosophy in the casting room that we don't really tell the actors - the actors tell us. "
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Philosophy
Casting
Us
" I don't think we're going to break the law in terms of what you can or can't do on TV. We're looking to do something edgy, different, and special. "
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Looking
Law
Edgy
" People think, 'Oh, you're doing 'The Wiz' because 'Empire' is such a big hit.' The truth is, staging this musical has been a dream of ours since the '90s, but the rights were tied up. It's just coincidental that, this year, when we were choosing a new musical, the rights were cleared. "
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Think
Dream
People
" If anything's going to go wrong, it'd go wrong during 'Peter Pan,' not 'The Sound of Music.' "
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Go
Wrong
Sound
" The reality of producing the Oscars is that it's a blood sport. With social media, everyone has a chance to voice their opinions. You have to know that entering into this special world requires a very thick skin. "
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Voice
Media
Know
" Carrie Underwood clearly drove 'The Sound of Music.' For 'Peter Pan,' we had terrific actors but not stars, and we did not do nearly as well. "
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Sound
Stars
Clearly
" We've spoken to a lot of friends who are stars who could be great, and they say to us, 'Look, if you were doing a movie musical, and we could pre-record and lip-synch, sure. But live? So if we hit a bad note it's there for posterity? We're not going to go out there without a safety net.' People are scared to death of that. "
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Death
Live
Look
" A lot of people feel that 'Music Man' is a good movie musical. "
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Music
Movie
Man
" When you work on a passion project, there's always the chance that you'll get your heart broken. "
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Passion
Chance
Broken
" I think we sublimated our Broadway desires by doing theater in Hollywood - not on stage but by doing the movies of 'Chicago' and 'Hairspray' and also musicals on TV. We did Rodgers and Hammerstein's 'Cinderella' and 'Gypsy' and 'Annie.' Even 'Smash' was like doing theater. "
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Movies
Chicago
Doing
" He's perfect for anything. I would hire Hugh Jackman to come to my house and have dinner. "
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Dinner
Perfect
House