"(A will) is one thing you do start to think about when you get to my age. I don't think it should be about having a whole load of rich children and grandchildren. I think it should be used as a way to encourage the arts."
- Andrew Lloyd Webber Quote (ParentDish, October 2008)

And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God this is it. So you never can tell. I could find something this afternoon.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber Quote

Corny answer is of course is that everyone who wants musicals are children in different ways, aren't they? So you think of them in different ways. There are things of mine I'm sorry haven't come here.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber Quote

Even in Vegas. I think they do want a story. They want some form of narrative that they can understand. I know what you are going to say that certain shows in Vegas don't do that. But the general rule of thumb in my opinion is that you need a really great story. If I did anything here I would have to start from a story that would work here. Yet, at the same time that means it would work anywhere. It would be interesting because I love to break new ground. Particularly when you get to be my age you only do things because they are a challenge and you really want to do it.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber Quote (LA Times, about Phantom of the Opera)

I began to think, now is the time. I found quite a lot of opposition in Hollywood about the idea of doing a film musical and we ended up having to buy the rights back. I'm glad we did because it meant John and I were able to make exactly the movie we wanted.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber Quote

I guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does, he respected that and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber Quote

I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber Quote

I said, look, do you think you could bring Gerry through, and they said yeah, absolutely, they thought that. Joel was very keen to cast him. If all my music team were happy, I was happy.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber Quote

I think back at the time, if it had been 1988, I would have thought Michael and Sarah probably would have been cast but I don't think, I think it's much better that the girl is younger and if Sarah would have been 26 or 27 then.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber Quote

I think Michael Crawford realised, I think we all realised, once we'd gone the route of casting a very young girl, you can't really cast a 65 year old man opposite. Slightly different resonance I think. No, we weren't going to go there. We'd have Jack Nicholson in the lead.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber Quote

I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn't win the Tony Award.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber Quote

I would have gone right ahead but the only thing, the only phenomenon that's going on now of course, which is different in my experiences, is that you are getting things planted in the Net by people about the Woman in White on the Net. That's not a nice change.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber Quote

I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber Quote

If you know what you want to do, as I always loved musicals, and then to have been lucky enough to be successful with them, I think that's all you can ask isn't it? I think I don't really think too much about it. I am a bit shy socially, yeah, I admit that.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber Quote

In Evita I wasn't really hugely involved with it. I gave a little bit of help but they needed a bit of technical help on the movie and so some of my music people went in at the end of the movie and helped out with it.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber Quote

It must have been an extraordinary time. I guess the worrying thing about musical theatre to me, is if you look at the London season this year, mine is actually the only one to have come in.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber Quote

Negative things, and they were all deliberate and I'm not going to say who they were but I know who they were and it was in the business, and that's not a good sign.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber Quote

Superstar was made so early in my career I had nothing to do with it at all. The first time I saw it was the opening screening.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber Quote

The heart of it is still the music and still the score. But it is a new production which is conceived for a theater that has been built specifically for the "Phantom." I think it is possible that this will spur a whole collection of similar productions in places that don't normally have theater. I am not talking about Vegas now but other places around the world.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber Quote (LA Times, about Phantom of the Opera)

We felt we had to know something of his back story. I don't think people in the cinema would just accept that he's there. I think we had to learn how he (got there).
- Andrew Lloyd Webber Quote

Well the least favourite question is the one that one's asked particularly about in Japan is what's the difference between theatre and cinema and I think, well, that's about eighty bucks.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber Quote

Well we'd just seen Gerry. I think he wanted somebody who had that authority and was handsome. The thing is, he's a big hunk isn't he? All I can say, if you look at his chat line, or the Phantom website, it's quite worrying. Because the girls really seem to love him.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber Quote