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.
Tom StoppardNo matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.
Tom StoppardIt's probably unprecedented for a filmmaker simply to take the writers' script and treat it as the instructions on the package. What really happens is you pretty much suppress your own instincts - and your own views on the matter - and write things the way filmmakers would like to have them, though the filmmakers often don't know what they want. They can only find out by reading what you do.
Tom Stoppard