Musicals are plays, but the last collaborator is your audience, so you've got to wait 'til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.
quote by Stephen Sondheim
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Related quotes
Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.
quote by Jeff Tweedy
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
A very good editor is almost a collaborator.
quote by Ken Follett
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I'm not a good collaborator in general.
quote by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
You have to really work with someone who you think is going to be a collaborator, who you think understands what you want to do with this movie and how you want to do it.
quote by John Frankenheimer
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
quote by Robert Wyatt
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!
quote by Alexander Alekhine
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
It was difficult every ten days having a new director. I'm a real collaborator and, as an actor, I want to be directed. It's hard for me to shift gears.
quote by Jeanne Tripplehorn
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate, an easy collaborator. Extraordinarily knowledgeable about film and writing.
quote by Chiwetel Ejiofor
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.
quote by Agatha Christie
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I write plays, and I have a musical that's starting to get produced now. That's what I would love to do, but it's so hard. The only reason people are reading my plays and musicals is because I'm in movies.
quote by Jesse Eisenberg
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I don't believe it's possible to be neutral. The world is already moving in certain directions, and to be neutral, to be passive in a situation like that, is to collaborate with whatever is going on. And I, as a teacher, do not want to be a collaborator with whatever is happening in the world. I want myself, as a teacher, and I want you, as students, to intercede with whatever is happening in the world.
quote by Howard Zinn
Submitted by Veronica Serbanoiu
Vote! | Copy!
I don't think today's younger audience... would even know what 1920s musicals were like.
quote by Julie Andrews
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals.
quote by Laurie Anderson
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Be Audience Rare
do not write
to fickle audience
be audience rare
write what
themes
flow choose
most
rarely read
rhymes
no time to waste
on audience present
will eternity wait?
do not write
to audience
be audience rare
poem by Terence George Craddock
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
I grew up doing musicals. I've done so many musicals in my life, I kind of got them out of my system. But, I certainly would be open to them. Rocky Horror Show is a big favorite of mine.
quote by Guy Pearce
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I do know one thing: I wish people were doing more dangerous musicals, more courageous musicals and not just falling into the trap of trying to figure out what the public wants, because you find out that the public very often wants what's good.
When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!
Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.
quote by Stephen Sondheim
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.
quote by Arthur Miller
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples.
quote by Joe Pantoliano
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!