Tom Stoppard : (13)

" I’m attracted to the past. " - Tom Stoppard

" My father was a doctor in Moravia, in the south of the country. There were a number of Jewish doctors in the hospital there, and at a certain point – almost too late, really, but in time – they were all sent overseas by their employer. " - Tom Stoppard

" If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There’s a perfect pace to be found. And a perfect place that is different for every line of the play. " - Tom Stoppard

" I am as miserable as anyone – sometimes. " - Tom Stoppard

" I’m very garrulous, but I don’t say anything. " - Tom Stoppard

" What Tolstoy is on about is that carnal love is not a good idea. " - Tom Stoppard

" I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven’t got a play cooking. " - Tom Stoppard

" I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation. " - Tom Stoppard

" I like trying to create a spark through a collaboration between me and the audience. " - Tom Stoppard

" I don’t think Stoppardian has a precise definition. " - Tom Stoppard