The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.

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.

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.

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

Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur.

Despite the successes, you remember the failures - rather lovingly.

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