Cameron Mackintosh quotes
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“The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.”
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“It horrifies me how much it costs to put on shows now, mainly due to EU regulations. The freedom to be entrepreneurial is no longer there. It's a massive business now.”
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“Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.”
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“My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream.”
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“If there's too much of you around, people can get tired of you.”
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“I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles.”
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“I've never had a very great public life.”
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“I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.”
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“I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.”
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“I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.”
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“I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.”
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“I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.”
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“Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.”
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“An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.”
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“Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.”
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“My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.”
-- Cameron Mackintosh
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