Top 35 Richard LaGravenese Quotes

Paul Hicks is the only guy The Beatles will allow to arrange, mix and engineer their music, so he did the Cirque du Soleil ‘Love’ show.

I didn’t write to become a director, which many people do.

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

I’ve always shot on film, but the times are changing.

In 1996, Shakespeare‘s ‘Twelfth Night’ was removed from classrooms after a school board passed a ‘prohibition of alternative lifestyle instruction‘ act. Apparently, a young female character disguised as a boy was a danger to the youth of Merrimack, New Hampshire.

I’ve been a teenager. I even feel like I’ve been a 16-year-old girl. So I have a lot of voices inside my head!

Even as a kid, I was more enchanted watching Bette Davis than Errol Flynn.

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

If I can make a living as a writer, I can do anything.

My dad was a presence, of course, but he worked nights a lot, and I would only see him one day a week.

Academy Awards don’t really solve anything.

The South is like a foreign country to me!

‘The Last Five Years’ was a musical in 2002, and it’s a deconstruction of a marriage.

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.

Barbara Stanwyck movies drove me nuts, like ‘Ball of Fire‘ and ‘Double Indemnity.’ I used to go cuckoo when I would see those films.

The thing that I love is human behavior – why people do what they do, who they are, and the choices that they make – and that has to always be plot driven.

Families always have these unspoken dramas, and at holidays, everyone is supposed to sit down and pretend that none of that is going on.

It’s not uncommon to have chaotic writers‘ rooms.

I really like Rosamund Pike very much.

When I was young, I had two older sisters, and since I was the youngest in my family, my mom took me around with her all the time. I was forever with her when she was having coffee in the middle of the afternoon with her three sisters. And they would talk about men. I absorbed a lot of that.

TV is where a writer can write his novel.

I’m very much interested in doing actual theater.

Every marriage is weird! That’s what it is – we just all need to start embracing the fact that there is no normal.

The real Liberace – and I’ll preface this by saying that I didn’t know the real one – was a man who didn’t come from much. His father left him and his family for another woman. His father was a musician, which I thought was pretty interesting.

I’m not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories.

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 tend to believe, when you‘re in a relationship, if you don’t fight, it’s not a real relationship. You have to have arguments and tensions, otherwise I don’t believe it.

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.

Women have to take more control of their careers. They can’t just wait to be cast in a film.

You can have ambiguity in television that you are not allowed in film… at least in Hollywood studio films.

I’m a dramatist.

I just really have an affinity for women. Watching them go through journeys is more interesting to me than watching men.

The woman who runs the Pennsylvania Innocence Project told me that there’s a man she’s been trying to get out of prison for 26 years. Every night before she goes to bed, she thinks, ‘What is he doing?’ She says you don’t sleep. And yet, she has the greatest sense of humor and this light that comes out of her.

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.

We have people in our lives who help us evolve along the way. If you’re lucky, you find someone who evolves along with you, and that’s what you call a long-term relationship.