Many actors in films are willing to go to Broadway, and screenwriters are writing plays. It's almost commonplace.
TV has the unique opportunity to take musicals, live events, so it has that feeling and excitement and spontaneity, but still has a camera between you and what you are watching.
I'm very competitive, and I want to be very successful, but at the end of the day, films to me are still films. I want them to be good, and I'll work the hardest, but at night, I go home to my life and my family, and that's where my heart lies.
I was always interested in storytelling, particularly in theater and film. I liked creative things. My mom and dad are wonderful people, but both are tone deaf, so I don't know where the gene came from.
I love getting up in the morning. I love coming to my office. I love going to movie sets. It's really what every parent wishes for their kid - to do what makes them happy.
Hollywood is what I do. It's not who I am.
Adaptations, especially movie musicals, are really hard to do.
I saw 'Into the Woods' maybe 26 times in various incarnations. I'm very familiar with it.
The themes and ideas embedded in 'Into the Woods' always spoke to me.
The financial side of Broadway is the easy part. Plenty of people want to put money in a Broadway show. The challenging part is finding the material that excites me enough to spend a couple of years of my life devoted to it.
Navigating the studio system has its own challenges, and, as a producer, you want to be astute and clever.
I always believe that a good story will find its audience and that it will attract different kinds of elements of creative people who will make it more compelling.
As a producer, when you get to work with a filmmaker who is joyful about making films, you want to do it again and again.
I'm lucky that I get to do the bigger movies and the smaller movies.
I'm a very hands-on producer.
One of my skills is knowing, 'This is where I'm needed, and this is how I'm needed and where I'm going to be in control and where I'm going to cede control and why.'
With 'Shinobi,' we hope to make a film that honors the essence of the games.
Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.
I always appreciate hard work, and every actor has a different process. I appreciate focus.
I appreciate actors who work very hard to get at the truth of the character they're playing. That speaks to me, and I try to protect that process because I value the focus and intention behind it.
