Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea.… — Harold Prince Audience Copy Share Image
I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did. — Harold Prince Always Copy Share Image
There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling. — Harold Prince Composer Copy Share Image
I always liked the visuals to be choice and at the same time minimalist. And, I love black boxes. After all, that's… — Harold Prince After Copy Share Image
You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years. — Harold Prince Couple Copy Share Image
I really like reaching out and seeing the audience - they're potential audiences! And on occasion I can make them excited about… — Harold Prince About Copy Share Image
There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater… — Harold Prince Any Copy Share Image
We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater. — Harold Prince Find Copy Share Image
Most of the big money people don't know what would interest an audience if you did it. They only know what interested… — Harold Prince Audience Copy Share Image
You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences.… — Harold Prince Argue Copy Share Image
I got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it... But I do think there is responsibility to move the musical theater form… — Harold Prince Form Copy Share Image
The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out. — Harold Prince Award Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director. — Harold Prince Cinema Copy Share Image
Audiences are very willing to be taken somewhere, and to ask an audience beforehand what it wants is probably, I think, a… — Harold Prince Agree Copy Share Image
I have a terrible memory because I'm not interested in the past. It's done, it's done. — Harold Prince Done Copy Share Image
I've seen a lot of 'Show Boats,' but I've never seen the one that thoroughly satisfies me. — Harold Prince Boat Copy Share Image
I suppose a certain degree of adulthood has entered my life. Aiming for Broadway, I can't think that way any more. Of… — Harold Prince Adulthood Copy Share Image
You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You… — Harold Prince Around Copy Share Image
When I was a producer, the fun of the show was waking up with a hit and enjoying the period after the… — Harold Prince Directors Copy Share Image
Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing. — Harold Prince Astonishing Copy Share Image
I don't compare shows. It's very simple. I don't live in the past. If there's any secret to my longevity, it's living… — Harold Prince Any Copy Share Image
You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic. — Harold Prince Always Copy Share Image
I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping. — Harold Prince End time Copy Share Image
What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on. — Harold Prince Missing Copy Share Image