I just wanna kind of give the world something special.
I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.
The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.
I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.
I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
I got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it. . . But I do think there is responsibility to move the musical theater form forward. I think you always have to be aware of the work that came before and build on that.
I don't like to be in front of the camera - my place is behind the camera.
Reason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the will, and can have no influence but so far as it touches some passion or affection. Abstract relations of ideas are the object of curiosity, not of volition. And matters of fact, where they are neither good nor evil, where they neither excite desire nor aversion, are totally indifferent, and whether known or unknown, whether mistaken or rightly apprehended, cannot be regarded as any motive to action.
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.