Marc Platt

“As a producer, when you get to work with a filmmaker who is joyful about making films, you want to do it again and again.”

“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.”

“One of the secrets of 'A Christmas Story' is that it's a relatable story. They feel like our family.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Music has a way of getting inside all of us and lifting us up.”

“It's hard to get an inner dialogue in a film. It's not cinematic. But in a musical, the character can just turn to the audience and sing.”

“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.'”

“When I first started in the business, it was hardly ever done. But today, it almost feels like studios go out and preview movies knowing full well that they're going to use the information they get to go back and reshoot.”

“It was just the DNA of my family. Giving back didn't feel like an entitlement; it was an obligation.”

“Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.”

“As much as I love storytelling, I've always been drawn to talent.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The film world is always looking for great source material, and Broadway has traditionally and historically been a place to go.”

“Ever since I was a kid, I dreamed about working in the theater.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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?'”