“I learned a great deal from Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera. I learned from them that cartoons can be as visually amazing as a Bob Clampett cartoon, but they also can be verbally clever, like the best of the Yogis and the Hucks. I really, ultimately, when I was...
“Just try new things. I mean, my whole life has been fun because I was willing to try writing screenplays, try writing a novel, try lecturing on the brain. Don’t be timid about it. Go for it. You can do it…also, you will want to give up many times....
“If there’s 10 people or 10,000 at the gig, what you have to remember is every single one of them put their hand in their pocket, got out money and paid to see you, and you owe them. It went into me like it was the Bible. I think it was the best bit of...
Adryan Russ writes music and lyrics for theater, film, television and recordings. Her off-Broadway musical Inside Out, co-written with playwright Doug Haverty, played The Cherry Lane Theater in New York, and has been produced in many theaters across the U.S., in...
“Musicals are bigger than the sum of its parts. It’s made up of the music and the words and the orchestration and the scenery and all of that, and the acting and everything else. But something magical also happens. When that happens, I call it the Miracle....
