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" A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there. "
Tom Stoppard
You
Watching
Someone
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" The truth of the matter is that I used to be much more - as it were - shy. Now I don't care! "
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" If you don't know what is being said, the rest of the actor's work is wasted. "
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" The whole excitement for writing anything is quite intense. And for a day or two, you think you've done everything extremely well. The problems start on the third day, and continues for the rest of your life. "
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" If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice. "
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" I'm not that taken with Freudian perspectives. They seem to be overcomplicated. "
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Seem
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" You are the plays you write. How on earth could you write them otherwise? They're projections of your own predilections. "
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Earth
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" I don't draw on my inner life in my work. "
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Work
" There are too many things I find it difficult to say 'no' to. "
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" I've got no interest in educating or instructing people. "
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Got
" I can be affectionate about a lot of things without watching them. "
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Lot
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" If you let the plot be determined by what you feel is in the character's mind at that point, it may not turn out to be a very good play, but at least it will be a play where people are behaving in a kind of truthful way. "
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Good
" I flinch when I see my name in the newspapers. "
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Newspapers
I See
Name
" All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque. "
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Eye
Blur
" One always likes to think that other countries are not like one's own. "
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Own
Think
" One of the reasons why there are so many versions of Chekhov is that translations date in a way that the original doesn't; translations seem to be of their time. "
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Why
Original
Date
" The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain. "
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Purpose
Say
" I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses. "
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Trust
Values
Against
" I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much about them. I do read them, and I do care about them, and they're not always what you want them to be in an ideal world. "
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You
World
Want
" The whole thing about writing a play is that it's all about controlling the flow of information traveling from the stage to the audience. It's a stream of information, but you've got your hand on the tap, and you control in which order the audience receives it and with what emphasis, and how you hold it all together. "
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Control
Information
Writing
" I seem to be failing in my intention to be as boring as I possibly can be for self-protection. "
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Boring
Failing
Seem
" I don't feel like a Londoner. "
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Like
Feel
" 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. "
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Writing
Work
Theatre
" I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained. "
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Conversation
Argument
Talk
" Rewriting isn't just about dialogue; it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene. "
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How
You
Dialogue
" I don't do interviews under false pretenses. "
Tom Stoppard
False
Pretenses
Interviews
" Possibly because I did start off as a journalist, my starting point has always been that you've got to keep an audience with you. Whatever you're doing, you always want a script to be a page-turner. It's very important never, ever, to feel above that. "
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Start
Doing
" I don't believe there is something called 'film' and something called 'theater,' and that words belong in the theater. Some rather bad films have few words in them; some good films have a lot of words in them. "
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Good
Bad
Believe
" I'm so grateful to grab hold of something that wants to be a play. It doesn't happen very often. I don't have unwritten plays waiting for their turn. "
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Play
Grateful
Turn
" I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education. "
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Wait
Education
Go
" The printed word is no longer as in demand as when I was of the age of pupils or even at the age of the teachers teaching them. "
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Teaching
Age
Word