110 Quotes by Harold Prince

I’m a pragmatic man. I’ll veer on the dangerous side, because I love dangerous subjects, but I won’t shoot a show in the foot.

I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn’t anticipate. It’s really good to think we got it all nailed – of course you’ve never got it all nailed.

It’s nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical.

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

When I was a producer, the fun of the show was waking up with a hit and enjoying the period after the show opens. The fun of a director stops the day it opens. No matter if it’s a success or a failure, it’s not a whole lot of fun anymore.

I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in ‘Julius Caesar.’ It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I’ve never forgotten it.

I have a terrible memory because I’m not interested in the past. It’s done, it’s done.

The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they’re handing it out.

Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don’t care who does that astonishing.