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 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.
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.
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.
To be 64 is appalling, so what does it matter being 65?
When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all.
Why should I write a play? I don't have to write a play, do I? But somehow, I think that's what I'm here for, so I'd better do it.
To be in love with Debo Devonshire is hardly a distinction.
With plays that require any kind of reading program, I'm reading for a couple of years before using the material.