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Launching a Broadway show is like no other endeavor. It's taxing because you're present - it's not like cutting a movie and test focus-grouping it and filling out forms.

It's a part of most actors to want to be in an animated feature; to extend the legacy of your career.

The great thing about doing a series about the Broadway community is that the possibilities are endless.

To direct a genuinely animated film, you're really having meetings and discussing what you want with animators who then go off and produce one shot at a time that you look at and comment on.

'Broadway' is one of the big American words. It's exciting to be given the chance to rattle around in one of the big words.

In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down.

Doing a musical is like having a kid. It's out there alive somewhere. It's not like a movie or a TV show where what we intended is what everyone will see. The kid can act out. The kid's going to do what it wants to do.

It's called show business for a reason. The theater owners want to make money, and understandably so.

Broadway has some very tight expectations as to what a show is.

The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it.