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

Most of the big money people don't know what would interest an audience if you did it. They only know what interested the audience last time.

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

Nothing is staged exactly as it was, because I can't remember - and I consider that an advantage.

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

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.

I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take more chances. I think because everything costs so much they're not taking the chances they used to.