Cameron Mackintosh Quotes

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• Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
• An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
• Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the…
• I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.
• I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.
• I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.
• I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.
• I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
• I've never had a very great public life.
• I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles.
• If there's too much of you around, people can get tired of you.
• My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream.
• What musicals need is a new me.
• Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when…
• It horrifies me how much it costs to put on shows now, mainly due to EU regulations. The freedom to be entrepreneurial is no longer…
• My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not…
• The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.
• I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
• Sometimes, thinking on your feet can be the most creative. Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you. Some of the most successful shows…
• By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.

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