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Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

- Harold Prince
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Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.

You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.

Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.

You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.

I don't know why the guys with the big money don't find five terrific young producers and give each of them enough to commission a musical and to live on for a year. You'd be likely to get at least one project with a future.

The truth of the matter is that I have lasted a long time, and with it comes both good and bad things. One of the good things is that no one can ever take my career away from me. No one can ever say, 'You can't be in the theater any more.'

I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director.

The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth is, I believe in family values.

I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.

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Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.