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" Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power. "

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" 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. "

" My desk faces the water, and I'm perfectly happy sitting there. I'm never lonely. "

" I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition. "

" Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change. "

" My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful. "

" I can't remember what my first script was. "

" The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists. "

" I don't think falling in love in Slovakia is much different from falling in love in Tunbridge Wells. "

Falling In Love

" I adopted England as least as much as England adopted me. "

" A publisher many years ago asked if I'd like to write a novel for £50. And I said, 'Absolutely.' "

" I like dialogue that is slightly more brittle than life. I have always admired and wished to write one of those 1940s film scripts where every line is written with a sharpness and economy that is frankly artificial. "

" I don't draw on my inner life in my work. "

" I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process. "

" 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. "

" Success is a sort of metaphysical experience. I live exactly as I did before - only on a slightly bigger scale. Naturally, I won't be corrupted. I'll sit there in my Rolls, uncorrupted, and tell my chauffeur, uncorruptedly, where to go. "

" Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end? "

" To be in love with Debo Devonshire is hardly a distinction. "

" I like the notion of theater as recreational. "

" Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper now. I just haven't got time. "

" The thing about talking about human rights is that when one bears in mind the sharp end of it, one does not want to worry too much about semantics. "

" 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 seem to be failing in my intention to be as boring as I possibly can be for self-protection. "

" 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. "

" Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up. "

" I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education. "

" Corporeal death is not the whole story. "

" Like many people, I only knew of Ford Madox Ford through a book called 'The Good Soldier,' which is everybody's favorite Ford Madox Ford if they have one, but I came to read 'Parade's End' when it was suggested via Damien Timmer of Mammoth Screen. "

" Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on staging. "

" If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play. "

Change The World

" Chekhov directors and Chekhov actors love working on his plays because there seems to be no end to what you can find out about the micro-narrative when you're investigating a text. "