Harold prince

There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.

I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.

I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.

When I started producing, it was George Abbott directing and he would let me do the scenery. He just wanted to know where the doors were - the entrances, the exits; the tables, the props - and then I...

Most of the big money people don't know what would interest an audience if you did it. They only know what interested the audience last time.

I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director.

There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.

Producing should be a creative responsibility.

I always liked the visuals to be choice and at the same time minimalist. And, I love black boxes. After all, that's what theatre is, it's an empty space, and it's both limited and unlimited because...

The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things...