The more doors there are for you to open, the better the play.
From Tom Stoppard
Chekhov was capable of casually tossing off deplorable comments in his letters, combined with a very modern anger against anti-Semitism.
One senses that all the Bolsheviks, even those who ended up as cold-blooded autocrats, had been on a journey from idealism to something else, and didn't notice - to mix periods - when the Rubicon was crossed.
I like trying to create a spark through a collaboration between me and the audience.
I think I'm a difficult conventional writer.
I don't feel like a Londoner.
You end up going to school plays quite a bit as a parent, there are a lot of kids who are doing the job as well as they can, but there's always one or two who seem much more at home in the world of impersonation.
I went to an English school and was brought up in English. So I don't feel Czech.
Although I don't examine myself in this respect, I would say, off the top of my head, that I've come to acknowledge my Czechness more as I get older.
Everybody I know is writing plays twice a year. It's sort of making me feel I am not up to much.
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