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
I like the notion of theater as recreational.
I'm aware of my old plays and occasionally think about them, but I'm much more anxious about finding the next play.
I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.
If you don't know what is being said, the rest of the actor's work is wasted.
I really just like to be at a desk.
I proudly tell people, 'I have no computer,' so as not to be ashamed of having no computer.
In my mind, I always knew what my father looked like.
In 2005, I got an email from Belarus Free Theatre. They were emailing playwrights in America and England announcing their existence and saying they would like support from us. I wrote back and asked if they wanted us to visit. They said, 'Yes, we'd love that.'
He's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it
Chekhov directors and Chekhov actors love working on his plays because there seems to be no end to what you can find out about the micro-narrative when you're investigating a text.
Chekhov was capable of casually tossing off deplorable comments in his letters, combined with a very modern anger against anti-Semitism.
I'm not interested in clothes; I just like them.
I am as miserable as anyone - sometimes.
I am not somebody who meets a man or a woman somewhere and feels like that is an incredible character that I must write into a play.