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" The only rule of a musical is that it must maintain its buoyancy. "

George C. Wolfe

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" To me, 'Show Boat' was the first American musical, the first to have the real texture of this country. "

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" You've got to make the rehearsal room very safe. You can't bully people, because if you bully people, they're going to freeze and lock up. "

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" Producing has empowered me as an artist in a specific way. It's forced a certain kind of maturity. "

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" It may take a while, but I think 'On the Town' has the potential for us to break down the boundaries between the traditional theatergoer who may have fond memories of the musical and those with a 'Broadway-is-not-for-me' agenda. "

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" I really don't find revivals very interesting because I like new work a lot. I feel like if you're going to pay me, then let me do what I do and let me try to solve some problems. Let me try to make something fly. Why would I do something that everybody has already done the hard work on? But that's me. Tons of people do revivals really well. "

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" I've always tried to do shows in a filmic way. I like it when forms smack up against each other. "

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" As a person of color, I was trained from very early on to see 'Leave It to Beaver,' 'Gilligan's Island,' or 'Hamlet' and look beyond the specifics of it - whether it be silly white people on an island or a family living in Nowheres or a Danish person - to leap past the specifics and find the human truths that have to do with me. "

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" The worst thing when you're working is to say, 'I have a question,' and the other person goes, 'No! This is what it is.' That kind of rigidity is very challenging because musicals are constantly mutating. "

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" I want to create a theater that looks, feels, and smells like America. "

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" With actors, I have very close, intense working relationships with actors in theater. "

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" The rules I sort of live by for my theater career, which I hope to live for my film career, is that if there's something that intrigues me or fascinates me, or I don't know how to do it, then I should do it. "

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" AIDS is a shared truth - it's not selective in its wrath. "

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" I like to knock down walls and allow others to enter. "

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" Something that can be so vital at one point can be inconsequential at another. I'm just intrigued by that phenomenon. "

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