Words matter. These are the best Robert Lopez Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Whenever Disney asks if you want to do a fairy tale musical, you say yes.
You can never assume that something is going to do well.
It’s wonderful to be able to have such wildly different projects in your body of work. They don’t feel different to me as I’m working on them. It feels like they all share this element of subversiveness and finding the joy in subversiveness.
When we wrote ‘Avenue Q,’ we worked hard to create something that could be funny and satirical but also had some surprise moments of heart, moments when the music itself could become a central player and create something sweet and moving.
There’s been a lot of Catholic parody – ‘Nunsense,’ ‘Sister Mary Ignatius’ – I think they’ve almost been done to death, actually.
I admire ‘Urinetown.’
My first writing job was with a company called TheatreworksUSA.
If you’re doing a musical, you should be out to give the audience something special, emotional, an uplifting feeling, something that stays with them. And you’re not going to do that by bumming them out.
We love the great Disney songs – they have always inspired us in our work and in our lives! But for ‘Let It Go,’ we looked elsewhere – to powerful female singer-songwriters like Tori Amos, Aimee Mann, Sara Bareilles, Adele.
I basically never feel like writing. I am a happy-go-lucky, relaxed, fun-seeking kind of person. And working disturbs that, because it puts me in a state of anxiety.
The things that I have done that haven’t been as successful have been things that have been largely out of the public view, which is great. It’s terrible, when you’re a theater writer, to have a big flop publicly.
I don’t know if I have good habits, but I’m very devoted to writing. I’m very compulsive about having a project, at least one, and trying to follow the business as much as I can. I keep on top of all the entertainment business news.
The temptation to quit and start over infects every creative process I’ve ever been in. Frustration and boredom always fuel this self-doubt.
I always have to re-learn the important lesson that the work is always stronger when I listen and take input from others.
People try not to think about what’s going on in sub-Saharan Africa. They edit it out of their daily lives. Especially Americans. We prefer a fantasy version of Africa.
People are born with the ability to make judgments. And they can’t help but use the information they have to divine something about the world they’re in. Making categorical judgments, in large, helps our society.
I’m sort of agnostic. I grew up Catholic and switched to Episcopalian in college because I sang in churches to have money to buy pizza and french fries.
This is one of my lesser moments, and one I’m not proud to admit to, but there’s always a time I feel the need to have control over the process and try to defend the song from the person I’m writing with. It never, ever helps and always causes problems.
I’m not really a ‘puppet’ person in particular; I think they are very theatrical, and I’ve found different uses for them in shows, but my true interest is in writing Broadway musicals.
Our kids come first, and we really put them at the top of our priority list.
On Broadway, there is no censoring, just self-censorship and doing what makes sense.
I did a musical episode of ‘Scrubs.’
I try to turn off the TV and play with my kids as much as I can, and I always hope they’re having as good a time as Mormon kids.
I don’t think I met an actual Mormon until college, and by that time, I was wary of them. I knew about the church through school and, secondhand, through non-Mormon friends.
With comedy, the jokes will come out, and people will see them coming. Changes in daily life or current events can change the consciousness of audiences and can make the show less funny or feel more stale.
