Bartlett Sher Quotes

We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.

Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.

I think [Guettel is] probably one of our most special writers now, pushing things in ways that are unique.

I'm sort of a Freudian about theater; it's always a struggle between freedom and security, between 'Do I stay where I am with my family because I love them or do I follow the thing that makes my heart feel the greatest?'

Americans like to believe we can overcome all obstacles and always triumph in the end, but that's not real life and a steady diet of stories like that will give you a pretty unhealthy view of reality.