Even when the writing seems very frivolous, I'm puritanical. I don't mean my subject matter. It's that I'm almost pathologically incapable of… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I don't believe there is something called 'film' and something called 'theater,' and that words belong in the theater. Some rather bad… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business. Sometimes directors feel a… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I want to support the whole idea of the humanities and teaching the humanities as being something that - even if it… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If you are well known at something else, you get points for doing stuff which lots of other people do, and much… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I'm so grateful to grab hold of something that wants to be a play. It doesn't happen very often. I don't have… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Embarrassingly enough, I often can't remember how I came to write something. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
One senses that all the Bolsheviks, even those who ended up as cold-blooded autocrats, had been on a journey from idealism to… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
It's very common for people to recommend something to me because they're going on what I've already written, when, what really is… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I could do something useful just by being free for half a day, but now I need five… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Love is - OK, it's 20 things, but it isn't 19. And I think that love reaches for something which is very,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
There are certain sorts of jokes which have only to do with the substitution of the unexpected word in a familiar context.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The universe is deterministic all right, just like Newton said, I mean it's trying to be, but the only thing going wrong is people… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“What is an artist? For every thousand people there's nine hundred doing the work, ninety doing well, nine doing good, and one lucky bastard… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and thanked him… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
