“What you’ll need, and when; how to pull people on that journey.”

The difference might be that in a film you have a close up. On stage you don’t.

I’ve been very fortunate as a composer to be involved with projects that have really propelled my scores forward. I’m very proud of it.

Everything else is relative levels of hell.

The best parts about writing a show are [its] first, second and 10th anniversaries.

If you write enough musicals you pretty much have a sense of where they should go.

Having a tradition is a great thing to work within, and maybe today [it] is the only way to really land musically dramatic work.

And all these people really wanted to reinvigorate the animated musical, so they came to Howard Ashman and me. That was my entry into Disney.

And, it’s also about spurring each other on to doing really great, hard work.

So you have to do a lot of things in order for things to move forward.

So there are more songs on the stage because the songs are kind of the close up.

Whether it’s animated, whether it’s live-action, whether it’s Broadway, whether it’s television, a musical is a musical is a musical.

I don’t write songs for myself anymore. I only write songs on assignment.

What brought me to Disney was the new regime, which is now the old regime, came over with Michael Eisner, Frank Wells, Jeffrey Katzenberg.

I’ve always juggled a lot of projects because at least half the projects you do get shelved.

It’s purely a business, but it is still so important to me emotionally.

So, pretty much you approach the songs in pretty much the same way.

Pull out the stopper! Let’s have a whopper! / But get me to the church on time!.

A gun doesn’t have the brain to hate with, or a finger to pull the trigger, so the problem isn’t the gun.

” Education does not mean jamming information into somebody’s head. Rather, it’s that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.

What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.

More and more, I am pulled reluctantly towards a strong horizontal current, which is a place where time is moving at such high velocity.

So she pulled the cord out of the wall, opened the second-floor window, and just threw it out the window.

Certain temperaments respond to anxiety by pulling inward.

As soon as the mind pulls out an agenda and decides what needs to change, that’s unreality. Life doesn’t need to decide who’s right and who’s wrong. Life doesn’t need to know the “right” way to go because it’s going there anyway.