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 there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.

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

I don't like abrasion while I'm working. I don't thrive on chaos. I enjoy what I'm doing, and it seems to work better when I am enjoying it.

It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good.

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