- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theatre was an art form that I didn't really respect, and because I wanted to shake it up and do different things on stage, I was able to combine all the things I'd learnt through writing on my own.
- Not Knowing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there.
- Morality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My usual trick with the Irish plays is to set things on islands I've never been to.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, as a poor-ish, working-class kid, even visiting America seemed like an impossible dream. Every time I ever went anywhere in America, it always felt cinematic and dreamlike and like a movie from the '70s or something.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd love to do something like 'A Canterbury Tale,' because I love the English language.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never, ever drink while writing. Never have from the start, and I'm happy that I never have to. A lot of my stuff is plot-driven and mathematical, and I think you need a clean and sober mind to pin down the logistics of that.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can go anywhere. In fact, for 'Three Billboards,' I was just getting on trains around America. I wrote everywhere from New York to New Mexico. I always write with pencil and paper.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got a fondness for rabbits.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never really tell anyone what I'm writing beforehand because I usually don't know what it will be.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not really into the fame side of things, so I'm very happy with making a film every four years or so.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved 'The Master' a lot. I'm not going to get to work with Daniel Day-Lewis, but Joaquin Phoenix is one of the best around, I think.
- Fake
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned not to be such a show-off and to have a bit more empathy with humanity. Or at least to fake that.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I heard the Pogues, I connected with the songs immediately, but it was also the first time I didn't reject out of hand the kind of music that my parents had always tried to push on to us when we were growing up.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ireland was an idyllic place for us as children. We had all these cousins and all this green countryside. Given what I've written about rural Ireland, my memories of it are all blue skies and endless play.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I've accepted that theatre is never going to be edgy in the way I want it to be. It's too expensive for a start. And, the audience seems to be complicit in the dullness.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that ticket prices are way too expensive, and there's only one bunch of people going to see Broadway shows, is something I've never liked.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't even subscribe to writer's block being a truthful thing. I've had writer's laziness quite often. But I think it's all about sitting down and facing down the blank page and doing it, and I've always been ok at that.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around.
- Nov 07, 2020
I fell into the theatre because I felt I was doing it well, and I stuck to it for the same reason.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
With a stage play, they can't cut a word; you can be in rehearsals every day, you cast it, you cast the director, too; the amount of control for a playwright is almost infinite, so you have that control over the finished product.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if you're writing a play, it should be its own end game; you'll never get to do a good one unless you know it's not a blueprint for a film; you're not going to get the action right and the story right.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think as a writer you never have to flee from fame because you're not that visible in the first place, but, after the Broadway success of 'Beauty Queen,' people were coming up to me all the time, and I wasn't really prepared for that level of attention.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't feel I have to defend myself for being English or for being Irish, because, in a way, I don't feel either. And, in another way, of course, I'm both.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies.
- Attitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story. Story is everything. Story and a bit of attitude.
- Choose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I pick and choose what I want to do at any given time, and what not to do, importantly. My agents, I won't hear about any offers or options.
- Cinema
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- Nov 07, 2020
I seldom feel comfortable in a theatre. I always feel like I own a cinema. I feel equally happy in an empty one as a full one. Probably happier in an empty one!
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
My plays are always pushing towards cinema anyway. They're down and dirty, real and more fun.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's like two years straight out of your life doing a film. It's very enjoyable, especially working with the guys, but I kind of like the idea of traveling and growing, and developing as a writer and as a filmmaker.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you've got good actors, they're going to come up with good stuff, but you're never quite sure how the dynamics are going to work between them.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020