In an interview, Peters said that Sondheim had " proposed the idea to her this spring and urged the producers of the revival to cast her.

In his interview with Meryle Secrest, Sondheim explained that he was “ what they call an institutionalized child, meaning one who has no contact with any kind of family.

Regarding his interest in writing new work, Sondheim was quoted in a 2006 Time Out: London interview as saying, " No ...

( There was a rumor that Sleuth was given the working title Who's Afraid of Stephen Sondheim ?, but in a New York Times interview on March 10, 1996, Shaffer denied ever using the title.

In an interview in 2008, Sondheim said " There is a move afoot to do Follies movie with a well-known director and a well-known star, and I'm not going to tell you who they are.

In an interview with Frank Rich, Sondheim said that " the outsider feeling – somebody who people want to both kiss and kill – occurred quite early in my life.

Instead, they symbolize fools, as Sondheim explained in a 1990 interview:

In a 2008 interview, Sondheim further clarified: