Harold Prince quotes

Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur. (Harold Prince)
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. View quote
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on. View quote
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I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did. View quote
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Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not. View quote
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Despite the successes, you remember the failures - rather lovingly. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run. View quote
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We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater. View quote
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The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out. (Harold Prince)
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 better when I am enjoying it. View quote
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I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater. View quote
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You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic. View quote
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I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons. View quote
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I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping. View quote
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I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take more chances. I think because everything costs so much they're not taking the chances they used to. View quote
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I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you? View quote
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It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Harold Prince)
I saw 'On The Town' about nine times. I discovered it. I loved it. I was in college. View quote
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Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators. View quote
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director. View quote
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The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes. View quote
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