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My Personal Life And My Artistic Life Do Not Interfere With Each Other.

Into The Woods--you Have To Grope, But That's The Way You Learn To Cope. Into The Woods To Find There's Hope Of Getting Through The Journey.

The Last Collaborator Is Your Audience ... When The Audience Comes In, It Changes The Temperature Of What You've Written. Things That Seem To Work Well -- Work In A Sense Of Carry The Story Forward And Be Integral To The Piece -- Suddenly Become A Little Less Relevant Or A Little Less Functional Or A Little Overlong Or A Little Overweight Or A Little Whatever. And So You Start Reshaping From An Audience.

Musicals Are So Expensive To Put On The Stage That You Have To Have The Backing Of A Corporate, You Have To Have Universal Studios Or Disney Or Somebody To Put In The Money.

What Justifies A Character Singing One Idea For 3 Minutes On The Screen? I Get Impatient And Want The Story To Carry On. I Don't Get Impatient In The Theatre.