Cameron Mackintosh famous quotes

03-26-2025

The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.
-- Cameron Mackintosh

#Giving #Musical #Buzz
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.
-- Cameron Mackintosh

#Cost #Regulation #Entrepreneurial
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.
-- Cameron Mackintosh

#Thinking #Wonderful #Forgotten
What musicals need is a new me.
-- Cameron Mackintosh

#Needs #New Me
My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream.
-- Cameron Mackintosh

#Dream #Country #Islands
If there's too much of you around, people can get tired of you.
-- Cameron Mackintosh

#Tired #People #Too Much
I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles.
-- Cameron Mackintosh

#Taken #Shows
I've never had a very great public life.
-- Cameron Mackintosh
I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
-- Cameron Mackintosh
I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.
-- Cameron Mackintosh

#Exceptional #Position
I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.
-- Cameron Mackintosh

#Goal #Producers
I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.
-- Cameron Mackintosh

#Debt
I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.
-- Cameron Mackintosh

#Glorious #Position
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.
-- Cameron Mackintosh

#Thinking #Discipline #Achieve
An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
-- Cameron Mackintosh

#Smell #Soul #Building
Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
-- Cameron Mackintosh

#Circumstances
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

#Thinking #Average #Tunes

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