649 Quotes by Tom Stoppard

As a writer, Harold has been unswerving for 50 years,

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.

GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear

A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.

The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe they need to speak to me in order to do their dissertation. They need to interview me.

You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid.

What did you have in mind? A short, blunt human pyramid?

All of my scripts are based on other people's novels. Generally, I consider myself as one who writes for theatre. I do not see film work as a continuation of writing for theatre. It is more of an interruption of the writing process.

To wrap up the idea of 'Parade's End' in a sentence or two, I would say it's a love story in which we see a man with two women, and we know what's attractive about them. And we know why and what they feel about him.