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
The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.
The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.
I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life.
From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.
I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.
I've got no interest in educating or instructing people.
Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.
I'm a very boring person.
I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.
I can't remember what my first script was.
Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.
Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.
A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.
When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells.