Craig Zadan

When you work on a passion project, there's always the chance that you'll get your heart broken. ”

Neil and I had the greatest experience of our lives doing 'Chicago' with Latifah. Then we had the second best experience of our lives doing 'Hairspray.' ”

I don't understand how other producers who have no experience making a musical jump in and produce one. ”

Some filmmakers set out to re-create the theater experience they got on Broadway. They kept everything the same. They shot the original casts. We reinvent the whole thing, look at it solely as a movie. We pretend that nobody saw 'Chicago' or 'Hairspray.' ”

When we went to Judy Davis and said, 'We want you to play Judy Garland in the mini-series 'Life With Judy Garland,' she was shocked, but we just had an instinct about her. ”

If anything's going to go wrong, it'd go wrong during 'Peter Pan,' not 'The Sound of Music.' ”

Neil and I are most thrilled that we were able to bring musical theatre to the enormous audience that 'The Sound of Music' reached. ”

Carrie Underwood clearly drove 'The Sound of Music.' For 'Peter Pan,' we had terrific actors but not stars, and we did not do nearly as well. ”

We'd never do 'The Sound of Music' because the movie was perfect. ”

When we did 'Chicago' and we announced Renee Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, and Queen Latifah, everybody went crazy and said, 'What are they doing? What are they thinking?' And, now, you look at the movie, and you see that we chose the people that we wanted for that movie, and we were so proud of all of them. ”