Tom Stoppard Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.

  Tom Stoppard

  Thinking, Would Be, Television

  Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. February 2, 2009.

• Once rehearsals are done the writer really doesn't have a function on the set. If the script is stabilized, then the writer becomes a celebrity tourist visiting the set, trying not to get in the way. It's very good for the ego, to go visit a film set if you are the writer, because they give you a special chair, and tell you where you can sit to watch the monitor. They make you feel special, but at the same time, they make it perfectly plain that you are irrelevant!

  Tom Stoppard

  Giving, Ego, Special

  Source: deadline.com

• Writing a play is like smashing that [glass] ashtray, filming it in slow motion, and then running the film in reverse, so that the fragments of rubble appear to fly together. You start - or at least I start - with the rubble.

  Tom Stoppard

  Running, Writing, Glasses

• I've never written an original piece for film; all the original things I've done are for the stage.

  Tom Stoppard

  Done, Pieces, Film

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work in film sometimes.

  Tom Stoppard

  Writing, Doe, Sometimes

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.

  Tom Stoppard

  Writing, Play, Cooking

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