I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.
From Tom Stoppard
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.
I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.
I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition.
I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.
As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.
For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.
I'm attracted to the past.
I write out of my intellectual experience.
I feel overestimated.
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