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If you can connect with the audience emotionally, that's potent storytelling.

— Travis Knight

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— Frank Wildhorn

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— Trey Anastasio

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— Steve Erickson

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— Emmanuel Benbihy

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— Chris Ware

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— David Nutter

Audiences want to feel represented, want to be able to empathize with the characters and the stories they are seeing on the screen.

— Diego Luna

From beginning to end it's about keeping the energy and the intensity of the story and not doing too much and not doing too…

— Deborah Cox

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— Tim Powers

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— David O. Russell

The beauty of theater is that you get to live the character from beginning to end without stopping. The natural momentum of the story…

— Sterling K. Brown