There's been lots of theater that uses hip-hop in it, but more often than not, it's used as a joke - isn't it hilarious that these characters are rapping. I treat it as a musical form, and a musical form that allows you to pack in a ton of lyric. Lin-Manuel Miranda More Quotes by Lin-Manuel Miranda More Quotes From Lin-Manuel Miranda The people you're turning to for advice are all people making Disney movies, so we had these amazing meetings where you'd see John Lasseter, and then next to him is Jen Lee, the director of Frozen. Next to her is Pete Docter, who's working on Inside Out. Lin-Manuel Miranda advice directors people We sort of quickly realized every rhythm, Opetaia [Foa'i] takes the lead. Lin-Manuel Miranda rhythm I came up with the "We are explorers," with sort of a counter-melody to [Opetaia Foa'i] melody. And so, it happened so organically, that it really, to me, is the most emblematic of our collaboration. Lin-Manuel Miranda explorers collaboration melody Disney's really incredible on story. Lin-Manuel Miranda incredibles stories I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. We just knew the rule was you're going to have to work twice as hard. Lin-Manuel Miranda immigrant you hard work I don't differentiate between black and Latino actors. We're in the same struggle to be represented in a way that's even close to honest. And I can tell you that the amount of Latino characters I can point at and say, 'That's what my life experience looks like' - I can't think of any off the top of my head besides Jimmy Smits in 'Mi Familia.' Lin-Manuel Miranda my-life you experience life Anytime you write something, you go through so many phases. You go through the 'I'm a Fraud' phase. You go through the 'I'll Never Finish' phase. And every once in a while you think, 'What if I actually have created what I set out to create, and it's received as such?' Lin-Manuel Miranda never go think you The fun for me in collaboration is, one, working with other people just makes you smarter; that's proven. Lin-Manuel Miranda me you fun people Making words rhyme for a living is one of the great joys of my life... That's a superpower I've been very conscious of developing. I started at the same level as everybody else, and then I just listened to more music and talked to myself until it was an actual superpower I could pull out on special occasions. Lin-Manuel Miranda my-life myself music life You know what's a great way of tricking people into thinking you're a genius? Write a show about geniuses! Lin-Manuel Miranda great you people thinking History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it. Lin-Manuel Miranda determines teller subjective history My only responsibility as a playwright and a storyteller is to give you the time of your life in the theatre. I just happen to think that with Hamilton's story, sticking close to the facts helps me. All the most interesting things in the show happened. Lin-Manuel Miranda me you time life The musicals that leave us kind of staggering on our feet are the ones that really reach for a lot. Lin-Manuel Miranda reach us leave feet In the best works of fiction, there's no mustache-twirling villain. I try to write shows where even the bad guy's got his reasons. Lin-Manuel Miranda best bad try villain I like to separate the music- and lyric-writing processes if I can. I'll sort of noodle around on my keyboard and my computer until I have a beat or a chord progression, I'll record it as a loop, export it to iTunes, then walk around with the loop and sort of talk to myself in the loop, and that's how I get the lyrics. Lin-Manuel Miranda walk myself music i-can Sometimes a line enters your head, and you're so grateful for it. You go online to check to see if anyone wrote it before you. You must have stolen it. Lin-Manuel Miranda go you grateful sometimes What 'Twilight Zone' did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil. Lin-Manuel Miranda great good good-and-evil evil 'West Wing' was huge. Like 'Hamilton,' it pulls back the curtain on how decision-making happens at the highest level, or at least how you hope it would be. The amount of information Aaron Sorkin packs into a scene gave me this courage to trust the audience to keep up. Lin-Manuel Miranda me trust hope courage The reason 'Hamilton' works is because there is no distance between that story that happened 200-some-odd years ago and now, because it looks like America now. It helps create a connection that wouldn't have been there if it was 20 white guys on stage. Lin-Manuel Miranda story distance white looks The only shows I saw as a kid were that holy trinity: 'Les Miz,' 'Cats,' 'Phantom.' Lin-Manuel Miranda cats only kid holy
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