Steven Spielberg Quotes

'You Can't Take It With You' has eighteen people onstage at one point. Musicals entail a larger collaboration, and I love that.

I know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.

I want to do rock operas.

I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project.

I'd quite like to do a musical. I'd probably have to develop that myself.

I'd like to direct more operas.

I have thought about some kind of musical involving my music. That would be kind of interesting. I have thought of it in that way, as a creator of something, not so much a performer. So that's in my head.

I would like to direct. What goes on behind stage is very interesting.

Some of my own books are being developed - one as a Broadway musical.

A musical is really one of the most complicated beasts. It's a play, and there's music... and there's dancing... it's unbelievably satisfying to get something up out of your brain onto a piece of paper ... and start the process and then see it on the stage.

I'm working in theater. I did not grow up loving or even knowing anything about it, except for 'Jesus Christ Superstar' and 'Tommy.' But I love it. It's such a great collaborative thing.

A play is not a play until it's performed, and unless it's a one-person play that is acted, directed and designed by the author, many other people will be deeply involved in the complicated process that leads to its performance.

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.

I'm very into the first production of the show.

I really love diving in, head first, with directing and not having to worry about hair, makeup or lines.

Now the big question is if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all that music and so on, there's got to be some aspect that you can do in an opera that really makes it worth while.

I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.

One of the things I love about opera is that it's the combination of all the art forms, and certainly the world of fashion is a big deal in it.

My desire was never to put out albums; it was to do musical theatre!

I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.

I'd love to do a musical. I have a little list of them in my head.

When Marty Short and I get together, I sit down at the piano and play the score of 'Godspell.'

With a musical, you kind of have to do a mind-meld with the book-writer, the lyricist, the composer, the director - sometimes the producer. I think that's a reason why musicals are the hardest form.

The musicals that I love on stage are generally meant for the stage.