6 ordspråk av Winnie Holzman
Winnie Holzman
But that being said, absolutely there are stories that women want to hear about themselves. They want those stories. Sometimes you don't realize you're starving for something until you've had a taste of it. A story where the women are not incidental, but they are the story.
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He had this feeling, which turned out to be true, that he and I might connect, and we really connected big-time,
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His focus was different. He was, actually, writing a novel. We were trying to delight an audience, and to pull an audience along through a complicated tale.
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I think we put on a real old-fashioned musical in some ways,
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It's not old-fashioned in the sense that it explores a friendship between two women who really grow and mature during the course of the show and are very interesting people. I'm not sure there are other musicals that do that.
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There is something at the heart of 'The Wizard of Oz' that is about feminine empowerment. I never set out to do that as a goal - write a musical about feminine empowerment. But the wizard, the male character, is a charlatan and a fraud. The witches have real power.
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