Quotes by Harold Prince

“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...”

“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.”

“Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.”

“There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.”

“You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic.”

“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 ...”

“I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.”

“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 o...”