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- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
- Having
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.
- Married Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.
- Golden Globe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A part of me would like to see the money go to hospitals or housing, but I have benefited so greatly from funding for the National Theatre, which has been incredible.
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dialogue probably reveals the paranoia of the stand-up: if you're not quick and interesting, they will be gone.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great comedy is always sadistic.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My whole life has a Jewish flavour.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have made a decision that in future, I will only take on movies that have a better than 75 per cent chance of being made, and that's not easy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come back to the theatre happily knowing that while it won't make me rich, it will provide me with fun.
- Jewish
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider myself a Jewish writer, like all my heroes: Tom Stoppard, David Mamet, Philip Roth, Arthur Miller, Woody Allen.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Enough people like me. Enough to let me sleep at night.
- Noble
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think writing is a glorious and noble thing.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost every play is 10, 15 minutes too long.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have the comedian's fear of bottles flying. I've never been bottled off, but I have had things thrown at me. Bag of crisps. And there's still a part of me, when I sit in an audience, that thinks people are going to start heckling the play.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I get anything out, producing anything, no matter whether it's good or not, I allow myself a little pat on the back.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd been to the Comedy Store, and I loved the terror of it and the way the best comedians could control the crowd. What confidence that would give you, if you could somehow survive.
- Did
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did have a midlife crisis.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2012, I really thought, 'That's it. It's over. I've written what I can write.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm on a train and see an empty pitch, it gives me a certain pleasure that I can't quite describe. It's to do with potential.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life is in dialogue with the plays that I write. The relationship I have with my plays is very, very intimate, and I dot my life through them.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't feel so alive if I'm not being creative.
- Handsome
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh, I would love to be in Don Juan's shoes for a weekend. Not that I was ever handsome enough to be a Don Juan.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I couldn't write, I felt like a zombie.
- I Write
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of what I write is comedy.
- Loneliness
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- Nov 07, 2020