We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater..

You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic..

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 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….

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'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place..

The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out..

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

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

I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons..

I always had a good time in theatre, even when shows don't turn out as well as I'd like..

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 have a terrible memory because I'm not interested in the past. It's done, it's done..

I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I ….

I'm a pragmatic man. I'll veer on the dangerous side, because I love dangerous subjects, but I won't shoot a show in the foot..

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 saw 'On The Town' about nine times. I discovered it. I loved it. I was in college..

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….

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

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

It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good..