Rob Marshall Quotes

As a director, you should choose a project that will educate you and enrich your life, because you're going to be doing it for two years.
At the end of a song, someone's always different than they are at the beginning.
Film is a living, breathing thing. It's very delicate, and you have to listen and watch for what it tells you.
I always feel on film you have to earn a ballad, because it's a different kind of pace.
I could talk for seven hours about Johnny Depp. There's no one like him. He has this amazing ability to watch something and then pick it up and do it, within seconds. He'll hate me for saying this, but I don't care. I'm going to say it anyway. He's Fred Astaire. He's this genius dancer. He says that he can't dance, but he can.
I found that something exists between director and actor sometimes that surpasses or transcends language.
I have a very simple philosophy when it comes to casting, and it really is casting the best person for the role.
I kind of grew up on musicals, specifically, for whatever reason. They're something that really attracted me as a child.
I kind of love working on film because television in live, that's tricky.
I was very aware of the fact we were so out of fashion when I shot 'Chicago.' And I was trepidatious as to whether it would be seen or embraced by anybody, but I've never stopped believing in the genre. There's nothing like it. It's American-born.
I'd much rather fail than do something like 'The Chorus Line' movie, sanitized and Hollywoodized.
I'm not a writer, although, as a filmmaker, you are an author in a certain way.
I'm very aware of the fact that Broadway musicals being brought to the screen are very few and far between, and it's important to continue that relationship between Broadway and film. It's a privilege and an honor for me to be instrumental in some way in keeping that alive.
Maybe because I come from choreography, I've always felt that there's something about action films that made it very natural for me to go that way. It's story through movement.
Maybe it took a little time, or we're a little late, but finally we're recognizing that international stars are fantastic. They're the greatest actors in the world, and few people know that.
My last show that I did on Broadway was - I hate to say this, but - 'Cats.' There you go. So I was doing 'Cats' on Broadway, and I injured my back. It was a really tough show.
The hardest part about directing is getting everyone on the same page.
The musicals that I loved, growing up - many, many. 'Singing in the Rain,' of course, is a classic, I love 'Meet Me in St. Louis.' I love 'Funny Face,' Stanley Donen's beautiful movie. It's really countless for me.
The thing about movie musicals is that there have been some brilliant ones, but when they're bad, they're really bad - big white elephants.
What's interesting was with all the shows I did on Broadway, I was either the dance captain or the assistant choreographer - I sort of worked my way up to that kind of thing - and I always was interested in more than just the dancers and the numbers. I would always sneak into the room and watch the scene work.
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