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I wasn't planning on doing musicals, but that's how I started.

I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.

I wanted to write for Broadway.

It's almost scary how amateur I am when it comes to musicals - I'm a musical goer, but I am not as obsessed with musicals as perhaps some of my theatrical friends are.

I hate musicals. There, I said it.

I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.

You hear about Broadway your whole life, and I learned what it meant to work on Broadway in 'The Phantom of the Opera.'

I mean, I've done musicals, but it's not my best thing.

You see, it took me so long, it was such a struggle, to move myself out of musicals - because I had had a success, nobody wanted to allow me to direct a non-musical picture. It was so hard. And the only way I could get it going was to become a producer myself.

I did a lot of musicals when I first started my career, so I can carry a tune well.