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 audiencefindknow share on social
I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead. Tom Stoppard childdeaddeserve share on social
Chekhov was capable of casually tossing off deplorable comments in his letters, combined with a very modern anger against anti-Semitism. Tom Stoppard angeranticapable Change image and share on social
I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design. Tom Stoppard actdesigndirect Change image and share on social
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 leaving something when I'm not quite happy with it. Tom Stoppard frivoloushappyincapable Change image and share on social
I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do. Tom Stoppard halflinelong Change image and share on social
It's so great in the theater when everyone catches up on the truth. Tom Stoppard catchgreattheater Change image and share on social
The idea that public safety, the safety of the innocent, is an absolute which trumps every other consideration, is tacitly abandoned in the way we live. Tom Stoppard abandonabsoluteconsideration Change image and share on social
It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross. Tom Stoppard ashtrayauthorback Change image and share on social
