That's the trouble with awards for a body of work. They always come at both a good time and a wrong time. Good because they tell you what you've been doing was worth the doing and wrong because they ought to come when you're young and excited and hungry for assurance that what you're doing is worth the doing.
Stephen SondheimWhat justifies a character singing one idea for 3 minutes on the screen? I get impatient and want the story to carry on. I don't get impatient in the theatre.
Stephen SondheimThe dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.
Stephen SondheimThe situation's fraught, Fraughter than I thought, With horrible, impossible possibilities!
Stephen SondheimOscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father. I liked my father a lot, he was a swell fellow, but I didn’t see him very often because my mother was bitter about him and did everything she could to prevent me from seeing him.
Stephen Sondheim