Audience Quote by Stephen Schwartz

The fact is that 'The Wizard Of Oz' has never really worked in the theatre. The film has one or two holes where, in…

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

I think that from day one, when it became clear that 'Wicked' was going to have a life, that we have set a standard…

— Joe Mantello

We really enjoy entertaining our children with characters. We'll act out all of The Wizard of Oz together.

— Anonymous

Is it perfect? Absolutely not! But there was an audience for 'Wicked,' and our producers were smart enough to reach that audience.

— Joe Mantello

Going so soon? I wouldn't hear of it. Why my little party's just beginning. ~ Wicked Witch of the West Wizard of Oz

— Anonymous

I think that what 'Oz' did is it spawned a great generation of television production. But people know its place in television and just…

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Imagining [The Wizard of Oz] without Judy Garland is a bit like dancing on wet cement: you can do it, but why would you…

— Pauline Kael

Both 'Oz' and 'Homicide,' they're critically admired, so it's not like they're really neglected, but I wish they'd found bigger audiences.

— Zeljko Ivanek

It's important to let everybody understand where people are at in the movie, in the sense of the landscape. You need people to invest…

— Ti West

If you look at the muscularity of something like 'Wicked' and the way it has just spawned sort of generations of young people wanting…

— John Logan

When I have been told that my films remind people of Ozu, I have never been too convinced.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

Herein find fiction full of whimsy, wit, hurt, and terror. Wicked, as in wickedly funny, is in the mix, too, along with a prose…

— Christine Schutt