I think people assume I only do light things because of the movies that are like 'Hairspray' and 'John Tucker Must Die.' But I think it's all just based on material that I really like and that speaks to me.
I think 'SNL' was such a unique thing because it was material you created and you're very comfortable with it, even though the setting was pressure-packed.
When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War.
You have to have wonderful actors for material, particularly difficult material that requires complicated performances.
The prices of raw materials do not fluctuate directly with the labour cost of producing them.
My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church; materials that were created on our own personal time.
Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
We'll get material in there and all of a sudden I'll switch the material around or the order of the show.
Love is the linchpin that connects the material world with higher levels of existence.
Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.
The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and work with them as I'm searching for an idea that works.
Even if we act to erase material poverty, there is another greater task; it is to confront the poverty of satisfaction – purpose and dignity – that afflicts us all. Too much and for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and ...
I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.
I'm planning a different show, though for obvious reasons some of the material will be the same, and of course I will perform material from the new CD.
Everything is raw material to me. Land is raw material... I take one form and transform it into other forms.
Knowledge has a materiality, not unlike the materiality of a ladder, that can be used to gain access to places and worlds that were previously unimaginable.
Material wealth do not last forever, but that which probably lasts forever is the wealth of intelligence and creativity.
The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story.
Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.
I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history, which are minstrel shows.
