44 Quotes by James Lapine

That's the thing about dreams - they're ineffable. If you can get to the bottom of it, it's not a dream.

I need an audience to look at what I've done so I can understand it, so I can step back and watch them respond and figure out what they're understanding about what I'm trying to do and what they're confused about.

Fairy tales, which teach a moral lesson, are about ourselves. Myth deals with forces greater than ourselves.

I've grown more and more appreciative of good writing, and I now really hope I can become a better and better writer.

I did 'Impromptu,' which was a thrill and a horror all at once - my first movie and having to do it in Paris, and my wife wrote it, and I had some difficulties on the set, blah, blah, blah.

I think visually... so, even when I'm writing a play, I'm envisioning it.

The one thing you don't want to do is go off and keep rewriting. If something's not quite right, it's often about modulating what's already there.

You can't be theoretical when you're building a musical.

Sometimes good news is hard to absorb.