Lin-Manuel Mirandawants to keepdirectingmovies, but dont look for him to mount any large-scale spectacles.
His 2021 debut as a director,tick … tick …
BOOM!, was a really nice size for me, theHamiltoncreator said.
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Rosie Perez at the Tribeca FestivalDade Hayes
I really love working with actors.
I really love unlocking musical storytelling, and thats the fun part.
Miranda maintained he would never attempt something as lavish asWicked, the forthcoming Universal adaptation of the long-runningBroadwayshow.
I want to direct funky little musicals that no one else would make as a movie.
The WGA strike did not come up as a topic.
both in terms of inspiration and also as a character played by Bradley Whitford.
Get back to the writing.
I want to just get as much thats in me out of me as possible.
… Sondheim was in his 90s and it still doesnt feel like enough time.
Collaborating motivates Miranda, he said, as opposed to anything requiring a hermit-like existence.
I cant imagine writing something and directing it, Miranda said.
Ill never write a memoir.
Ill never write a book.
Id feel alone a lot of the time.
Writing is tough because you have to be alone.
You have to marinate and daydream and take long walks.
But if youre writing a musical, you get to bring it in to someone else.
