Harold Prince Quotations

You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

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 in the future. And a little bit in the present.

It's fine when you careen off disasters and terrifyingly bad reviews and rejection and all that stuff when you're young; your resilience is just terrific.

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 provide in energy and bombast - I enjoy it when it's large, and by that I don't mean in size, I mean in emotions. Shakespeare did that.

I wouldn't be here if it weren't for 'Show Boat.' The kind of theater I chose to be involved in is completely a direct reflection of what 'Show Boat' made possible.

Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.

I always liked the visuals to be choice and at the same time minimalist. And, I love black boxes. After all, that's what theatre is, it's an empty space, and it's both limited and unlimited because the space is the space, but what you can do with people's imaginations is really endless.

I've seen a lot of 'Show Boats,' but I've never seen the one that thoroughly satisfies me.

There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.

The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.