“I don't think art changes the world, because if it did then we'd live ...” — Stephen Schwartz Quote

I don't think art changes the world, because if it did then we'd live in a better world. But it can change individual people's point of view, like 'Angels in America' did with gay issues.

With Bernstein, because we wound up always working music first, it was where I really feel I learned how to write lyrics as a craft.

Well, animation is the closest of the film media, or genres if you will, to stage because it's very artificial. Let's face it, it's drawings. And theater is an artificial medium that requires the audience to suspend its disbelief because you can see that you're not really in Egypt, and those aren't really camels or whatever.

I've won a few professional resume awards in my time, probably lost more of them that I've won.

Its visits, like those of angels, short, and far between.

I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.

The trend today is vampires, zombies, angels, all the stuff that puts me right to sleep. It's too bad because it's so much less interesting than the diversity of stories you can tell with science.

By that sin fell the angels.

There was no club but the Hells Angels as far as I was concerned.