Stephen Sondheim Quotes

You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people. - Stephen Sondheim

When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors. - Stephen Sondheim

When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written. - Stephen Sondheim

When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't. - Stephen Sondheim

There's something inimical about the camera and song. - Stephen Sondheim

The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service. - Stephen Sondheim

The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution. - Stephen Sondheim

The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me. - Stephen Sondheim

The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write. - Stephen Sondheim

The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890? - Stephen Sondheim

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