Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard
Sir Tom Stoppard OM CBE FRSLis a British playwright and screenwriter, knighted in 1997. He has written prolifically for TV, radio, film and stage, finding prominence with plays such as Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Professional Foul, The Real Thing, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. He co-wrote the screenplays for Brazil, The Russia House, and Shakespeare in Love, and has received one Academy Award and four Tony Awards. Themes of human rights, censorship and...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth3 July 1937
CityZlin, Czech Republic
You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid.
Somebody who likes to do my plays is a good director for them.
The more doors there are for you to open, the better the play.
As a writer, Harold has been unswerving for 50 years,
A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.
Despite the digital age, there is a very large number of venues and spaces that are looking for plays, and many of them are looking for new plays.
'Arcadia' is obviously a play that's got interesting things in it that are perhaps quite hard to grasp.
In the end, one has to feel lucky that things fell out O.K. I've felt that all the years I've been writing plays.
I like trying to create a spark through a collaboration between me and the audience.
I have two garden parties a year to avoid going out to dinner.
I flinch when I see my name in the newspapers.
I'm very unhappy about my entire life if my writing is going wrong.
I'm very garrulous, but I don't say anything.
I'm not that taken with Freudian perspectives. They seem to be overcomplicated.