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 think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
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.
The printed word is no longer as in demand as when I was of the age of pupils or even at the age of the teachers teaching them.
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation.
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!
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.
The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.
When I was in my teens, I was very, very keen on being the author of a book. What the book was was secondary. I wanted it to be in hardback. I didn't care how thick or thin it was, and I didn't actually care what it was about.
What a fine persecution - to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.
Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.
Like many people, I only knew of Ford Madox Ford through a book called 'The Good Soldier,' which is everybody's favorite Ford Madox Ford if they have one, but I came to read 'Parade's End' when it was suggested via Damien Timmer of Mammoth Screen.
I think I give the impression of being a romantic, and I think inside I'm quite severe. But some might say they had the opposite impression of me.