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

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

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….

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 think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?.

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..

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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..