Manuel Miranda
Manuel Miranda
love musical school side writes
We love 'Fiddler.' We love 'West Side Story.' I want to be in that club. I want to be in the club that writes the musical that every high school does.
country hurt
We come to this country to work; we are not here to hurt anybody.
bad best shows works
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.
kissing lax listed scene terrible wrote
I made a movie when I was 15 years old with all my friends. This is when IMDb was a little more lax with its proceedings, so it's listed as one of my projects. I was 15 years old; it's a terrible movie. I wrote 50 percent of it because I wanted to kiss this one girl, and I wrote a kissing scene for it.
pursue pursued takes
I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't write a book, because there's no applause at the end of writing a book.
musicals staggering
The musicals that leave us kind of staggering on our feet are the ones that really reach for a lot.
anyone check enters online stolen wrote
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.
capacity good great
What 'Twilight Zone' did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil.
experience five hollywood latin screen variations voiceovers
I can't say I have enough experience with Hollywood to feel that I've encountered racism there. I can tell you that I did about five fruitless years of auditioning for voiceovers where I did variations on tacos and Latin accents, and my first screen role was as a bellhop on 'The Sopranos.'
close facts happen helps life playwright responsibility sticking time
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.
five god possibly watch weep
I couldn't possibly write 'Next to Normal,' but God, I can weep and watch 'Next to Normal' five times.
fun people
The fun for me in collaboration is, one, working with other people just makes you smarter; that's proven.
games open rhythmic watching wimbledon
The only other thing that's like video games for me is watching tennis on TV. I can have it on, and there's a rhythmic quality to it - I can be watching Wimbledon or the U.S. Open and still be working.
albums andrew began christ concept life stage toward
I always had an eye toward the stage for the story of Hamilton's life, but I began with the idea of a concept album, the way Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Evita' and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' were albums before they were musicals.