“If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I...” — Stephen Sondheim Quote

“If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.”

“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.”

“Musicals are plays, but the last collaborator is your audience, so you've got to wait 'til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.”

“For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of a western ploy.”

“Many people dismiss morning television as fluff, but the morning hours are where the money is.”

“I don't believe in a golden mean; I don't believe you find policy wisdom between two polar points. I don't dismiss that possibility, but I look at the platform that's so ideologically based, that's so dismissive of facts, of evidence, of science, and it's frankly hard to take seriously.”