110 Quotes by Harold Prince

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

I've seen a lot of 'Show Boats,' but I've never seen the one that thoroughly satisfies me.

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

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

What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.

You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

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 that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.

Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of room for rock musicals, just not all rock musicals.

One thing is certain: We can't go back. The musical will never be the same as it was.