"I saw the off-broadway production of Tick, Tick...Boom! And I go see this musical by the guy who got me started writing musicals because Rent changed my life, and it was even somehow more concentrated and personal an attack than Rent was."
"Hey Lin, here's a sneak preview of your twenties. That pretty girl sitting next to you with an amazing voice? She's gonna get a real job. You guys aren't gonna be together anymore. All your friends? They're gonna get real jobs."
" It's just gonna be you, banging your head against the wall of your childhood dream, and the world's gonna tell you "no" everyday of your life."
"I think that's also one of the most important things about our movie, this is not one of those biopics where you see the Mozart writing his masterpiece. This is a movie about failure, and getting back up, and his masterpiece is ahead of him, and it's hopeful because maybe so is yours."