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

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

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 didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

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

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 don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?