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 seem to be failing in my intention to be as boring as I possibly can be for self-protection.
Like most writers, I just create because I have a story to tell, really.
I went to an English school and was brought up in English. So I don't feel Czech.
I get the impression sometimes that a play arrives in a sequence of events that I have no control over.
I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.
I adopted England as least as much as England adopted me.
I actually went to an Oasis concert. I thought they were a brilliant songwriting band.
I like trying to create a spark through a collaboration between me and the audience.
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.
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.