Hacking Hollywood: The Creative Geniuses Behind Homeland, Girls, Mad Men, The Sopranos, Lost, and More by Chuck Salter

Author:Chuck Salter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Management
Publisher: Fast Company
Published: 2013-07-03T04:00:00+00:00

COLLABORATE WITH THOSE WHO WILL KEEP YOU HONEST

I used to say to Tom [Meehan] who wrote the book with me, “Tom, I don’t want to take sides here. I don’t know if I have the complete and proper and correct vision, so you tell me what you think works on the musical stage and what you think is too private or too cinematic.” That’s why I joined up with Tom. I was afraid I’d fall back into all the movie clichés, and I wanted a big Broadway stage, and Tom had done Annie on Broadway and he knew Broadway, and he was smart and a pleasure to work with.

I wanted to return to Broadway for a long time. I always missed it. I missed the live aspect. You write a joke, the audience laughs. You don’t have to wait 15 months for editing and for color correcting and timing. You’re out there and you do it, and it’s one human being to another. A human being onstage to 1,500 other human beings in an audience. It’s an amazing phenomenon. I love live. More than anything in the world, I love it.

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1 EMMY (THE SID CAESAR, IMOGENE COCA, CARL REINER SPECIAL, 1967)

2 GRAMMY (2000 YEAR OLD MAN IN THE YEAR 2000, 1998)

3 OSCAR (THE PRODUCERS, 1968)

4 TONY (THE PRODUCERS, 2001)

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