Quotes About Adaptation

The faster you can get your ideas in contact with the real world, the faster you can discover what is broken with your idea.

In the real world, people go against my beliefs all the time, and I don't make it my place to - like, I'm not super confrontational.

Sometimes altering your position is the right thing. Sometimes it's not.

The secret of the Internet's success has been its openness to new services.

I think you have to grow up in anything you do. Not grow up, but you've gotta grow with your fanbase. I think that's the secret of what music is.

'The Simpsons' is a tough act to follow, so I thought it was best not to do what they do.

I'm always fascinated by the 'who would you like to work with' question. I've never really had an answer; it only really comes as you work with them.

It was pretty radical to go from the Eagles to being the only melodic instrument. You have to play a certain way. It's like the Who. It was a great kick in the pants for me to get my chops up and to improvise a little more.

When I got out of undergrad, I had a degree in theater and telecommunications. My first job, I was a news reporter for the local stories for NPR. Then I was a country-western DJ. I did data entry for a yearbook company. In my mid-20s I went back to grad school at NYU, and I specialized in playwriting.

Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.

At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place.

In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

If you want people to come to theaters, you better do something different.

I've been asked a lot why didn't 'Ruined' go to Broadway. It was the most successful play that Manhattan Theatre Club has ever had in that particular space, and yet we couldn't find a home on Broadway.

Acting must be scaled down for the screen. A drawing room is a lot smaller than a theatre auditorium.

Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.

I came from the theatre, which had given me opportunities in television as well as a film adaptation of my second play 'Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got The Will?' for MGM.

It's important to move the theatre into the 21st Century.

It's a whole different kind of anxiety. But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that once the ball starts rolling you just have to go with it, it's inexorable.

I think the genre of musical theatre, when it started, the pop songwriters of the time were writing the music. I think sometimes when we write musicals now, we keep writing in that same style, as though that's the musical theatre genre... We have to figure out how to tell stories with the music that we listen to now, or we'll lose our audience.

The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are different pressures on the industries.

I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it.

When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.

I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts.