We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you? — Harold Prince Actor Copy Share Image
Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art. — Harold Prince Art Copy Share Image
A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run. — Harold Prince Business Copy Share Image
I saw 'On The Town' about nine times. I discovered it. I loved it. I was in college. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director. — Harold Prince Cinema 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 remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
Everything can't be a postage-stamp-sized project. Everything can't be a chamber piece. Musicals aren't even meant to be that, or identified with… — Harold Prince Actor Copy Share Image
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… — Harold Prince Ancestry Copy Share Image
The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me,… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably… — Harold Prince Actor Copy Share Image
When I was a 25-year-old kid, I raised $260,000 for my first show, 'The Pajama Game,' in such a homemade, pathetic, endearing… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office,… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I'm just really trying to say what I really mean, which is: 'Your eye's on the prize, your eye's on the future.… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
'Evita' was four pieces of slick paper and a record album. It's the most scary, to sit down and dictate a musical… — Harold Prince Album Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is that I have lasted a long time, and with it comes both good and bad things.… — Harold Prince 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
I don't know why the guys with the big money don't find five terrific young producers and give each of them enough… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director. — Harold Prince Cinema Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: We can't go back. The musical will never be the same as it was. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I have a terrible memory because I'm not interested in the past. It's done, it's done. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I always had a good time in theatre, even when shows don't turn out as well as I'd like. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not. — Harold Prince Criticism 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 love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater. — Harold Prince Actor Copy Share Image
Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don't think that's a good trend for the theater at all. — Harold Prince Actor Copy Share Image
I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was… — Harold Prince Age Copy Share Image
I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it. — Harold Prince Emotional Copy Share Image
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… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do… — Harold Prince Investing Copy Share Image
