"In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies."
― Stephen Sondheim
Topic(s):
Movies
More From Stephen Sondheim
- "Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience’s imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there’s no fourth wall."
- "One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music."
- "Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on."
More In Movies
- "All movies assault the viewer in one way or another."― Michael Haneke
- "I don’t think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can’t kiss a movie."― Jean-Luc Godard
- "It’s the contemporary woman that movies don’t know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners."― James Wolcott