You are an over-excited little man, with a need for self-expression far beyond the scope of your natural gifts. This is not discreditable. Neither does it make you an artist.
Tom StoppardThere is no one so radical as a man-servant whose freedom of the champagne bin has been interfered with.
Tom StoppardTheater 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 StoppardOnce 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