47 Quotes by Cameron Mackintosh

I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.

I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.

Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.

I'm a war baby: I was brought up with rationing, and my parents always had to struggle. I remember when I was sent to boarding school - Prior Park College in Bath - my father was asked how he was going to pay the fees, and he replied: 'In arrears.'

It horrifies me how much it costs to put on shows now, mainly due to EU regulations. The freedom to be entrepreneurial is no longer there. It's a massive business now.

My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.

I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.

By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.

I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.