Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don’t think that’s a good trend for the theater at all.

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.

I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.

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

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

The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth is, I believe in family values.

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.