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Marc Platt

American Producer

Born: Apr 14, 1957

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

Kid Dreamed About Since Theater Working Ever

As much as I love storytelling, I've always been drawn to talent. Marc Platt

Love Drawn Talent Always Been Storytelling Much

I do remember feeling, 'I don't ever want to feel impotent in terms of what I can control in a business in which you can have very little control.' And that motivated me to go to law school - that, and my parents saying, 'Go to law school before you do anything.' Marc Platt

There were 100 intellectual reasons not to pursue 'Wicked.' There were times where it was very challenging, where the mind said, 'This is maybe too challenging,' but the heart willed it. The heart willed it to succeed. Marc Platt

Heart Mind Wicked Too Willed Pursue Said Were Intellectual Very Times Maybe Where Succeed Reasons Challenging

Winning an Oscar attracts the attention of directors and other actors and creates a boost in salary, particularly for someone like Halle Berry. For an established star like Denzel Washington, the benefits are less tangible. Marc Platt

Benefits Other Boost Berry Someone Directors Winning Attention Like Particularly Attracts Halle Halle Berry Tangible Salary Denzel Denzel Washington Established Creates Less Washington Star Actor Oscar

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. Marc Platt

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. Marc Platt

Love Morning Happy Every Sets Kid Parent Wishes Makes Coming Up Office Getting Going Movie Them Really

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

Am Hollywood Who

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. Marc Platt

You Experience Challenge Faithful Own Medium Recognize Telling Something Point Take Also Material Source Exist Very Offer Any Essence Different Story Original Unique Adaptation

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

Saw Various Very Familiar Times Maybe Woods

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

Me Embedded Spoke Ideas Always Woods Themes

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

You Challenges Clever Own System Astute Studio Studio System Want Producer

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?' Marc Platt

I'm a very hands-on producer. Marc Platt

Very Hands-On Producer

Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate. Marc Platt

Good Communicate Ability Direction Often Based

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

Work Hard Work Focus Every Always Different Process Hard Actor Appreciate

I do love being amongst creative people and facilitating that and being inspired by people. I get very bored with just competence and require inspiration all around me. Marc Platt

Love Me Creative People Bored All-Around Inspiration Inspired Around Very Get Just Being Require Creative People Amongst Competence

Some of the metaphors you find in 'Wicked' - how those in power can exploit fear in others to maintain their power - I think, as Jews, we've seen that historically on more than one occasion. Marc Platt

You Fear Seen Power Wicked Think Jews Others Those Find Some More Maintain Occasion How Metaphors Historically Than Exploit

Even in a manuscript form, 'The Girl on the Train' sort of leapt off the pages as a contemporary suspense drama-slash-thriller. It has all the mechanics of a thriller, but at the heart of it was a great character study. Marc Platt

Great Character Heart Girl Thriller Study Contemporary Sort Off Train Suspense Form Pages Manuscript Mechanics Even

What makes 'A Christmas Story' universal, whether you celebrate Christmas or not, is that you recognize that family... It's ultimately about a family being glued together for the holiday season. Marc Platt

Christmas Family You Together Celebrate Holiday Season Recognize About Makes Glued Ultimately Being Story Whether Holiday Season Universal

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. Marc Platt

Love Today Dreams Humanity Enemy Compassion Tomorrow Will Our Our Lives Dream Dreaming Civilization Because Provide Repression Stories Keep Lives

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

Will Community Else Members Support Nobody Nobody Else Organizations Jewish Jewish Community

Music has a way of getting inside all of us and lifting us up. Marc Platt

Music Way Inside Lifting Up Getting Us

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