Character Quote by Stephen Sondheim

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something. Or, you have to be singing in a vocabulary that has…

— Jonathan Demme

On Broadway, there is a tradition of the star standing still onstage and singing for three-and-a-half minutes. You can't do that in movies.

— Stephen Schwartz

I'm not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it's surreal.

— Carrie Underwood

In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.

— Marcia Gay Harden

You have to make sure that people are still motivated and happy and creatively challenged so that it can all be stitched together. The…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

When the song is part of the action and working as dialogue, even two minutes is way too long.

— Stephen Sondheim

Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page…

— Terry Pratchett

With acting, the response is usually delayed and takes time, unlike with singing, from where I instantly get fans' response.

— Lee Min-ho

I don't believe moviegoers don't have patience. Screenwriters are told a scene can't be longer than three minutes, that you have to cut to…

— Tracy Letts

When you do a play, you have all this time to rehearse and grow into the character. In television, even though you're waiting and…

— Aja Naomi King

An actor stands in front of a camera onstage, and he controls time and space for the audience. He tells them how long this…

— John Michael Higgins

Time passes and you must move on Half the distance takes you twice as long So you keep on singing for the sake of…

— The Eagles