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It never occurred to me that ‘Phantom of the Opera’ was the sort of subject that I’d want to do, because I just thought it was something that would be a bit jokey. ‘Til I read the book.
Doom is a classic supervillain, akin to the Phantom of the Opera. It’s not about revenge so much as, like, ‘I’m back – now watch this!’ It all boils down to the music. The mask is a slight theme for people to enjoy, and it adds mystery.
Not much to be perfectly honest! I thought The Phantom Menace was terrible, except for the Pod Race.
Nothing will ever be as big as ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ for me.
My poor sister was forced to be in the plays that I would write. We would go to my grandma’s retirement building and perform ‘Phantom of the Opera.’
Well we’d just seen Gerry. I think he wanted somebody who had that authority and was handsome. The thing is, he’s a big hunk isn’t he? All I can say, if you look at his chat line, or the Phantom website, it’s quite worrying. Because the girls really seem to love him.
The plot of my ‘Phantom’ is pretty much mine. It’s based on the Gaston Leroux book – I’ve taken a lot of liberties with it.
Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion – if also violence and mayhem.
Hal Prince and Andrew actually asked me if I would be interested in continuing with ‘Phantom’, but obviously I was under contract to ‘Les Mis’ by then.
I had always been a fan of Nas, but I never met him. This is the one guy in the industry who’s, like, the phantom rapper.
As one of four daughters, I grew up with an imaginary brother – wondering what it would have been like if one of us had been a boy. There’s no question that there was a phantom boy child in my imagination when I was young.
Phantom Films is an established production house and it will help to spread awareness about the documentary film ‘Katiyabaaz’ among the audience. I saw this film and I loved it. Then we decided to support this film.
Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
I thought about ‘Johnny Quest’ and how I loved that cartoon and what a cool name he has. I tried to come up with other names and thought ‘Johnny Phantom’ would be cool, a superpowered kid who was a ghostbuster.
People feel they can just pass judgement with a tweet or with a comment and then you’re supposed to change your life for them. I can’t worry about what some phantom individual online has to say about me.
I had to get used to wearing a mask and wearing a prosthetic and performing with those things while singing and expressing myself through stylized movement, while keeping it as human as possible so the audience could be closer to the horror of the Phantom.
I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it’s a phantom chase.
It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
It is the mass dream of inverted self, populous with fears overt and secret, that forms the continuous but gossamer thread upon which are strung as phantom beads all civilizations from the remotest past of record to that of the present day and hour.
My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected.
I love the fact that James Ivory made films about Britain, made ‘Howards End’ and ‘The Remains of the Day,’ or that Paul Thomas Anderson made ‘Phantom Thread.’ They’re about Britishness, but they’re from an American perspective. And I actually think they’re fantastic in the way that they understand Britishness.
If you look at the great frauds of all time, Enron had that phantom trading floor. What Herbalife has is it has phantom or fictitious customers.
In the Broadway world, I’ve always wanted to play Valjean in ‘Les Mis’, since I’ve already played Gavroche. I’d also like to play the Phantom of the Opera, but I haven’t really thought about any film characters. You’ve got to have a whole lot of training for the Phantom role, vocally.
I have questioned myself about the brutality in the last few novels. Actually in ‘The Leopard,’ in hindsight, I feel I went a little bit too far with screaming blood. There are a couple of scenes that I regret and wish I had the chance to rewrite. ‘Phantom’ has less blood.
The new game that I’m working on will be called ‘FNAF World.’ It will not be a horror game, but a role playing game where you create a party using the huge selection of characters from the ‘FNaF’ games, including the classic, withered, toy, phantom, and nightmare versions.
I landed the role of Bravo 5, the only female fighter pilot in ‘Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.’ I did my bit and fired my guns, but I haven’t a notion of which side I was on or who I was firing the guns at.
Whereas ‘OddParents’ was slam-bam and silly all the way through, ‘Danny Phantom’ has more of a good-guy-vs.-bad-guy comic book feel.
Every year I go to Broadway to see a musical – I like the music. I saw ‘Mamma Mia;’ I saw ‘Les Miserables;’ I saw ‘Phantom of the Opera’ like six, seven times.
I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better – as in the ‘Chronicles Of Narnia,’ ‘The Wizard Of Oz,’ ‘The Phantom Tollbooth,’ the ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ cartoon on Saturday morning in the ’80s.
What I can’t tell is, I don’t know if there’s a subliminal resistance to the idea of a sequel to ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ anyway.
Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
I started singing for The Phantom in January, and we started filming in October and I sang all the way through to the next June. In fact, I was singing for about two months before I even knew I had the role.
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach.
Yes, but Phantom Productions is my core team. It is like my family. And I love them.
I was not exposed to a lot of culture. The shows we saw in high school, like ‘Phantom of the Opera’ and ‘Miss Saigon,’ were thrilling. But my love affair with theater started with seeing a production of ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ that my sister was in.
People feel they can just pass judgement with a tweet or with a comment and then you’re supposed to change your life for them. I can’t worry about what some phantom individual online has to say about me.
I have questioned myself about the brutality in the last few novels. Actually in ‘The Leopard,’ in hindsight, I feel I went a little bit too far with screaming blood. There are a couple of scenes that I regret and wish I had the chance to rewrite. ‘Phantom’ has less blood.
The Phantom, as well as being backed up by that music, it just so was a role that I identified with so powerfully. From the first second that I walked on to perform.
I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better – as in the ‘Chronicles Of Narnia,’ ‘The Wizard Of Oz,’ ‘The Phantom Tollbooth,’ the ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ cartoon on Saturday morning in the ’80s.
It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.
In the Broadway world, I’ve always wanted to play Valjean in ‘Les Mis’, since I’ve already played Gavroche. I’d also like to play the Phantom of the Opera, but I haven’t really thought about any film characters. You’ve got to have a whole lot of training for the Phantom role, vocally.
‘Phantom’ follows some of the best submarine cold-war films made. There’s just so much tension, I can’t even describe it – you have to see it.
Coming from a different perspective on a society is really interesting. I love the Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘Phantom Thread,’ and that’s a version of Britishness and Englishness made by an American.
‘Phantom’ was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that it is in the present telling what is happening, and then there’s one voice from the past that’s also driving the story forward. And you know that the two story lines will meet eventually.
We can feel in Poland a kind of phantom pain for lost multi-ethnic territories.
I had to get used to wearing a mask and wearing a prosthetic and performing with those things while singing and expressing myself through stylized movement, while keeping it as human as possible so the audience could be closer to the horror of the Phantom.
When I was a vocalist, a lead singer in a rock band, I was a law student at the time. It wasn’t a professional rock band, it was for fun. I was already way out of that by the time Phantom came along. Having to learn to sing, it was such duress, having to really try and get to such a quality.
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