Who Quotes by Tom Stoppard

I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.

— Tom Stoppard

Somebody who likes to do my plays is a good director for them.

— Tom Stoppard

Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came across a textual problem.

— Tom Stoppard

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

You end up going to school plays quite a bit as a parent, there are a lot of kids who are doing…

— Tom Stoppard

All of my scripts are based on other people's novels. Generally, I consider myself as one who writes for theatre. I do…

— Tom Stoppard

People have quite a simple idea about 'Anna Karenina.' They feel that the novel is entirely about a young married woman who…

— Tom Stoppard

The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe they need to speak to me…

— Tom Stoppard

I am not somebody who meets a man or a woman somewhere and feels like that is an incredible character that I…

— Tom Stoppard

I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much about them. I do read them,…

— Tom Stoppard

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied…

— Tom Stoppard

In the period before the arrival of Mrs. Thatcher, politics had been in such low esteem. Everything was so hedged, so mealy-mouthed.…

— Tom Stoppard

I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was…

— Tom Stoppard

There are certain sorts of jokes which have only to do with the substitution of the unexpected word in a familiar context.…

— Tom Stoppard