What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.

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 really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.

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.

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

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

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.