Marc Platt Quotes

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?

James McAvoy is not an action star.

I appreciate actors who work very hard to get at the truth of the character they’re playing. That speaks to me, and I try to protect that process because I value the focus and intention behind it.

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.

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

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.

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.

We’re all human beings; people make mistakes.

The further you get up the corporate ladder, the farther you get from the actual filmmaking process.

I always appreciate hard work, and every actor has a different process. I appreciate focus.

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.

The theme of ‘A Christmas Story’ is that you can count on Christmas – that everybody has a Christmas story. Everybody has that time in the holiday season that they remember.

Stephen Sondheim is calculus for actors. The words are witty and brilliant and profound but complicated.

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.’

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.

‘A Christmas Carol‘ and ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ are movies we love with magic in them.

Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.

Thankfully, as much as Hollywood is interested in brands, I think people are still looking for originality and freshness.

‘Wicked’ has been one of the biggest hits in Los Angeles theatre history, and we are thrilled that theatergoers here have embraced the musical and welcomed us so heartily.

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.’

Hollywood is what I do. It’s not who I am.

That’s what makes live TV exciting – the unknown!

If we members of the Jewish community don’t support the Jewish organizations, nobody else will.

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.

The themes and ideas embedded in ‘Into the Woods‘ always spoke to me.

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?’

Watching familiar characters take unexpected turns is very appealing.

As much as I love storytelling, I’ve always been drawn to talent.

Navigating the studio system has its own challenges, and, as a producer, you want to be astute and clever.

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

‘Defying Gravity‘ is a big, theatrical, grand gesture. In film, how do you match that?

I’m lucky that I get to do the bigger movies and the smaller movies.

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

We always love actors taking unexpected turns.

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