Rob Marshall
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"Rob Marshall" is an American theater director, film director and choreographer. His most noted work is the 2002 Academy Award for Best Picture winner Chicago (2002 film)/Chicago, for which he won a Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film/Directors Guild of America Award, as well as Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for Best Director. A five-time Tony Award nominee, he also won a Primetime Emmy Award for his choreography in the TV movie Annie (1999 film)/Annie.

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I never intended to do this movie as a documentary-style version of the novel. It really is a fable.

[At a news conference in Japan,] not one question was raised, ... She has done a movie there playing a Japanese person, and they had no problem with it.

Great beauty, was a great dancer and had incredible spirit. There was no question at all when I met her.

It was wonderful and scary at the same time.

We wanted to premiere the movie here because it is a love story, and it also a love story about Japan.

It was very scary to take on a novel that was so loved by so many.

It has been an extraordinary experience. The film is like a child to me. It has grown up and it's time to let it go. It's for you, not us.

I saw many actors from around the world: It was so obvious that this was the one woman on Earth who could play this role.

This story lives in a very specific world - and yet the underlying scene of the triumph of the human spirit against all odds connects to any culture.