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
There's no lack of talent out there. I suspect there is a lack of creative guidance, and that would not be solely… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
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… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I've seen a lot of 'Show Boats,' but I've never seen the one that thoroughly satisfies me. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
There have always been revivals. Some have always been successful. And many of them have failed. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons. — Harold Prince Artistic Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be here if it weren't for 'Show Boat.' The kind of theater I chose to be involved in is completely… — Harold Prince 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 Copy Share Image
When I started producing, it was George Abbott directing and he would let me do the scenery. He just wanted to know… — Harold Prince 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 Actor Copy Share Image
Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting… — Harold Prince 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
I've always loved Victorian melodrama. And I've always liked larger-than-life theater, providing it's truthful and honest. I like what the theater can… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to… — Harold Prince 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 Copy Share Image
Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of… — Harold Prince Actor Copy Share Image
The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
It's fine when you careen off disasters and terrifyingly bad reviews and rejection and all that stuff when you're young; your resilience… — Harold Prince 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 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 Actor Copy Share Image
The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater… — Harold Prince Absurd Copy Share Image
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… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
Nothing is staged exactly as it was, because I can't remember - and I consider that an advantage. — Harold Prince Advantage Copy Share Image
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 Actor 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 Copy Share Image
I feel so much more comfortable when I'm working on material which makes other people scratch their heads and ask, 'You're going… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take… — Harold Prince Book Copy Share Image
I think when you start analyzing trends and start making shows for a particular audience, you are making a fatal move. I… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I'm on a single track here - I work to direct what I want to see onstage. I basically have been feeding… — Harold Prince 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 Copy Share Image
I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on… — Harold Prince 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 Actor Copy Share Image
All these actors who died before I was born, all the theaters and the artistic movements - all that stuff fills you… — Harold Prince Actor Copy Share Image
