Richard LaGravenese Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Sondheim is my god; I love the man. I learned a great deal about writing from his work, his lyrics, and his structure.”

“'The Last Five Years' was a musical in 2002, and it's a deconstruction of a marriage.”

“'Thelma & Louise' really hit a nerve, and I loved that movie.”

“There is a musical rhythm to great writing, especially if it's performed correctly.”

“TV is where a writer can write his novel.”

“A friend of mine from college is married to Neil Levy, who started on 'Saturday Night Live' in the early days and is a really great guy and funny writer.”

“As soon as you're finished shooting, you have to go into the edit room and choose all of the shots that you're going to commit to because the visual effects vendor has to get it because they'll spend months on it. So, you're editing out of sequence before you've gotten a film for the movie and the performances.”

“Connie Heermann is a Freedom Writer teacher. I believe she represents the best of what dedicated teachers can be because she chose to serve her students, not her school board.”

“I had to audition as an actor, and I got so tired of doing the same monologues over and over, so I started writing my own, and then I started selling them to other actors.”

“I think musical theater fans - obsessive fans - are very much like Comic Con fans in our personalities. We're very possessive, and we're very obsessive, and we're very critical. So don't screw with our stuff.”