Top 40 Marc Platt Quotes

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Winning an Oscar attracts the attention of directors an

Winning an Oscar attracts the attention of directors and other actors and creates a boost in salary, particularly for someone like Halle Berry. For an established star like Denzel Washington, the benefits are less tangible.
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Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.
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Many actors in films are willing to go to Broadway, and screenwriters are writing plays. It’s almost commonplace.
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The notion of someone who is fitting in or trying to become part of a larger family… It’s hard to separate that from my own Jewish roots.
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When a writer gets a second chance to look back on something, it’s a great opportunity to say, ‘Hey, this is really good, but we can do it even better.’
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I think too many people in Hollywood perhaps fail to make a distinction between the political side of Israel and the notion of the country. And they can be separate things.
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‘A Christmas Carol’ and ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ are movies we love with magic in them.
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Good movies beget other good movies. So when a movie captures the imagination and hearts of people around the world, it’s going to have a positive influence on similar genres getting made.
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Navigating the studio system has its own challenges, and, as a producer, you want to be astute and clever.
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The further you get up the corporate ladder, the farther you get from the actual filmmaking process.
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Producers should have the courage of their convictions. See your project through to its fruition. Seek help and be generous enough to take on collaborators and not be territorial as you’re learning.
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Music has a way of getting inside all of us and lifting us up.
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I do love storytelling.
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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.’
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I’m lucky that I get to do the bigger movies and the smaller movies.
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If we members of the Jewish community don’t support the Jewish organizations, nobody else will.
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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.
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I’m a very hands-on producer.
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There were 100 intellectual reasons not to pursue ‘Wicked.’ There were times where it was very challenging, where the mind said, ‘This is maybe too challenging,’ but the heart willed it. The heart willed it to succeed.
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Repression is the enemy of civilization – so keep dreaming, because the dreams we dream today will provide the love, the compassion, and the humanity that will narrate the stories of our lives tomorrow.
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We always love actors taking unexpected turns.
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I always appreciate hard work, and every actor has a different process. I appreciate focus.
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I have creative ADD.
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I have a certain kind of a taste for what will make a good movie or a good play or theater.
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In any adaptation, the challenge is to take the essence of the original source of the material, be faithful to it to a point, but to also recognize that you’re telling a story in a very different medium. It has to exist on its own, and it has to offer something unique to that experience.
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One of the secrets of ‘A Christmas Story’ is that it’s a relatable story. They feel like our family.
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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.
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There’s certain people you want to see in comedies; there’s certain people you just want to see in dramas. Not that there aren’t individuals who do both, but it’s not everyone.
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Hollywood is what I do. It’s not who I am.
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You’ve got Marvel films, sequels, franchise movies, so much noise out there. You’re trying to brand your entertainment. The musical is its own brand.
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I do love being amongst creative people and facilitating that and being inspired by people. I get very bored with just competence and require inspiration all around me.
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Watching familiar characters take unexpected turns is v

Watching familiar characters take unexpected turns is very appealing.
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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.
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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.
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I loved being a film executive. But something was always missing for me. I always had the feeling that I was looking over my shoulder – what’s going on on Broadway?
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The character we’ve always thought of as the Wicked Witch of the West is a green girl who’s actually very good, misunderstood, and trying to make her way in the world. She’s an outsider looking in, wanting to be loved. That’s a universal experience that everyone’s felt at some point in their lives.
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My personal challenge is always balance. My life has a lot of compartments to it, and I care about each of them deeply. So I wake up each day thinking, ‘How am I going to balance today?’
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Some of the metaphors you find in ‘Wicked’ – how those in power can exploit fear in others to maintain their power – I think, as Jews, we’ve seen that historically on more than one occasion.
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I saw ‘Into the Woods’ maybe 26 times in various incarnations. I’m very familiar with it.
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I want my projects to be great, of course. The talent has to come from a diverse pool. Because that’s the world we live in.
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