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.

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

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

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

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.