“I wish I'd understood the realities of working in the commercial theat...” — Stephen Schwartz Quote

I wish I'd understood the realities of working in the commercial theatre. I went in with a lot of illusions. I thought it would be this lovely happy family trying to make art - boy, was I wrong. I didn't know how cut-throat and mean it was. That phrase 'theatre community,' in my experience in New York, is a complete oxymoron.

As a parent who works in showbiz, you never really want your child to go into it.

That's what I like about musical theater, is that it's very collaborative, not just with the writers, but with the director and the designers and the actors. Everybody's playing in the sandbox, and ideas are coming from everywhere.

What we do in our lives is what gives us contentment and serenity and makes us feel like we are doing some kind of contribution.

Moreover, if a song is a hit, film makers come to us with requests to score similar tracks. In the process, commercial songs sometimes sound repetitive.

I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.

You have to have commercial income so you can spend on players.

I'm the weirdo. There have been multitudes of times in my career where I could have taken an easier road or a more commercial path, and I've been just like, that's not gonna make me happy.

I want to do commercial films as well as off-beat movies.