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"There's something inimical about the camera and song."
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"There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music."
"I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may."
"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
"I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults."
"Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it."
"So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with."
"A song has to become as much a part of you as a tailored suit."
"There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything."
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"The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me."
"When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors."
"I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on."
"You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people."
"My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity."
"Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on."
"By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur."
"I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it."
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