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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.

~Marc Platt

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I was always interested in storytelling, particularly in theater and film. I liked creative things. My mom and dad are wonderful people, but both are tone deaf, so I don't know where the gene came from.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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Adaptations, especially movie musicals, are really hard to do.

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I saw 'Into the Woods' maybe 26 times in various incarnations. I'm very familiar with it.

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

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Producer

Born: April 14th, 1957

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