The difference might be that in a film you have a close up. On stage you don’t. ALAN MENKEN CoseDifferenceFilmmightStage
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. ALAN MENKEN ComposerFortunateForwardInvolveProjectPropelProud
The best parts about writing a show are [its] first, second and 10th anniversaries. ALAN MENKEN AnniversaryBestPartSecondShowWrite
If you write enough musicals you pretty much have a sense of where they should go. ALAN MENKEN EnoughGoMuchMusicalPrettySense
Having a tradition is a great thing to work within, and maybe today [it] is the only way to really land musically dramatic work. ALAN MENKEN DramaticGreatMusicalThingTodayTraditionWay
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. ALAN MENKEN AllAnimateDisneyEntryPeoplePlaceReinvigorateWant
And, it’s also about spurring each other on to doing really great, hard work. ALAN MENKEN AlsoGreatOtherReallySpurringWork Hard
So you have to do a lot of things in order for things to move forward. ALAN MENKEN Do ThingForwardLotMoveOrder
So there are more songs on the stage because the songs are kind of the close up. ALAN MENKEN BecauseCloseKindMoreSongStage
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. ALAN MENKEN ActionAnimateBroadwayLiveMusicalTelevision
I don’t write songs for myself anymore. I only write songs on assignment. ALAN MENKEN AnyAssignmentMoreMyselfSongWrite
What brought me to Disney was the new regime, which is now the old regime, came over with Michael Eisner, Frank Wells, Jeffrey Katzenberg. ALAN MENKEN BroughtDisneyNewOverPeoplePersonRegime
I’ve always juggled a lot of projects because at least half the projects you do get shelved. ALAN MENKEN AlwaysHalfJuggledLeastLotProjectShelve
It’s purely a business, but it is still so important to me emotionally. ALAN MENKEN BusinessEmotionallyImportantPurelyStill
So, pretty much you approach the songs in pretty much the same way. ALAN MENKEN ApproachMuchPrettySameSongWay
Collaboration is being open to each other’s ideas and benefiting from each other’s perspectives in an open way. ALAN MENKEN AgeBenefitCollaborationEachIdealOpenOtherPerspective
Collaboration is all about rewriting and rewriting and rewriting and helping each other to constantly improve a piece. ALAN MENKEN AllCollaborationConstantEachHelpOtherRewrite
What you’ll need, and when; how to pull people on that journey. ALAN MENKEN JourneyNeedPeoplePullWhat
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