Quotes About Author

The film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself.

Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.

I first had the thought about making a musical of 'Edwin Drood' as far back as 1971.

It is easy to misunderstand what a comedy song is, or what its potential is. I'm used to musical comedy being maligned as an easy artform.

Zooey Deschanel loves music, loves musical theater, loves the show of it.

I trained at a conservatory as a mezzo-soprano and was a musical theater major in college so I had a theater background.

I have a camp fascination with all things musical theatre - I've even got the box set of 'Britannia High.'

I go deep into the script and speak the language of the film, musically.

The musicals that I love on stage are generally meant for the stage.

'The Light in the Piazza' is one of my top three musicals of all time.

Alice Ripley was someone who had had a huge effect on me when I had gotten out of college and decided that this was the road I wanted to take - to write musicals.

Singing was always the thing - I played some leads in musicals. Then when I went to college, I joined a singing group.

The X Factor' - I watch it because I'm always searching for talent to use in my musicals, so they do all the groundwork for me.

We already tried writing musicals. Sometimes that failure can become a cause for us. We had so much passion for the idea of doing a movie musical that it finally happened.

My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor. I just happen to be an author.

My husband is a musician, and 'Paste' is one of his favorite places to be interviewed by.

I was a musician for years before I started doing this stuff. Show business was the only thing I ever considered.

Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.

My characters are not role-model Muslims, but they struggle to make choices using Muslim logic.

I don't know that Islam has ever been a subject of anything that I've written. I think Muslims have often been, but those are two very different things.

Asking Muslims to stay away from social media is downright absurd.

Government policies to improve engagement with Muslims make things worse.

The mustache - I was never happy with the fullness of it. I was a bit too young. Maybe I'll bring it back in my mid-thirties.

From the end of 2015 to the start of 2016, I was always at the studio with Mustard, just figuring out a sound.