Marc E. Platt famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

What works in one medium does not necessarily always work in the other.
-- Marc E. Platt

#Doe #Mediums
The challenge in any musical is unifying all the moving parts of it, in particular a movie musical because now you're adding the camera and you're adding the idea of adaptation. So the challenge is to stay as true as you can to the material that you love and yet not be afraid to step outside of it and introduce elements into it that make it exist in a satisfying, exciting way cinematically.
-- Marc E. Platt

#Moving #Ideas #Challenges
We have no filter for music, but we feel it when what's being spoken and sung is telling a story and evidencing a character.
-- Marc E. Platt

#Character #Filters #Stories
You can sing if you have a great voice, but to connect that instrument to the text and connect it to the subtext, what lies underneath and the emotion, is indeed a rare talent.
-- Marc E. Platt

#Lying #Voice #Emotion
Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.
-- Marc E. Platt

#Ability To Communicate #Ability #Communicate
I think any musical has so many moving parts and the challenge is unifying all the moving parts in particular because you have the camera and now it's all about adaptation and what works in one medium doesn't necessarily work in another so the challenge is to stay as true as you can to the material and yet not be afraid to step out of it and add elements to make it satisfying cinematically.
-- Marc E. Platt

#Moving #Thinking #Challenges

If after accepting the spiritual master and being initiated one does not follow the rules and regulations of devotional service, then he is again fallen.
Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.
Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?
Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work
I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.
Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available.
Stand-up comedy is like the lowest medium in all of show business in levels of respect.
Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium
My medium is prose, not the novel.
I think ***** is a very rich medium, and I've studied it closely and learned quite a lot as a writer from it.

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