If you're doing a musical, you should be out to give the audience something special, emotional, an uplifting feeling, something that stays with them.

- Robert Lopez

I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels - smart and dumb, funny and sad, prof…

- Robert Lopez

I only like to write shows that I feel like no one has seen before.

- Robert Lopez

Whenever Disney asks if you want to do a fairy tale musical, you say yes.

- Robert Lopez

It's very hard to go from the intense self-criticism you need to have during previews to all of a sudden letting go of it and trying to enjoy the mom…

- Robert Lopez

Every time I see a film or TV show, I think about how that composer made those choices and how that director envisioned music and how that could work…

- Robert Lopez

I'm not an advocate of true rhymes, I don't think. I think that everyone who writes musical theater needs to know how to do true rhymes, because that…

- Robert Lopez

I basically never feel like writing. I am a happy-go-lucky, relaxed, fun-seeking kind of person. And working disturbs that, because it puts me in a s…

- Robert Lopez

I think one of my favorite productions ever was Sondheims Assassins at the Roundabout in 2004. Beyond brilliant.

- Robert Lopez