Harold Prince

“'Evita' was four pieces of slick paper and a record album. It's the most scary, to sit down and dictate a musical scene by scene. It was a musical unlike anything I'd ever seen before myself.”

“I feel so much more comfortable when I'm working on material which makes other people scratch their heads and ask, 'You're going to make a musical out of that?'”

“You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.”

“The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.”

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

“We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.”

“The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.”

“I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons.”

“You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic.”

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