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Martin McDonagh
Martin McDonagh
British Playwright
Born: Mar 26, 1970
Always Because Time Work Writing You
Related authors: Christopher Bond Graham Greene Howard Barker James M. Barrie Ken Hill Laura Wade Robert Bolt W. Somerset Maugham
Plays were really my last option. The reason I didn't write plays initially was because I thought theatre was the worst of all the art forms. Martin McDonagh
Art Theatre Thought Worst Write Because Were Art Forms Option Forms Really Reason Initially Last Plays
When I started out, I was very vociferously against theatre or what I saw theatre as being, so I tried to make my plays the opposite of that - something a bit more cinematic. I'm a film kid, so I'll never have the same love of theatre as I do of movies. It's just the way I was brought up. Martin McDonagh
Love Theatre Cinematic Saw Way Bit Kid Out Tried Brought Something More Never Make Opposite Up Very Same Just Being Against Movies Film Started Plays
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. Martin McDonagh
Good You Game Writing Own Action Think Unless Never Know End Get Going Blueprint Story Should Film Play Right
I fell into the theatre because I felt I was doing it well, and I stuck to it for the same reason. Martin McDonagh
Theatre Stuck Fell Well Because Felt Doing Same Reason
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. Martin McDonagh
Day You Director Every Day Word Finished Control Stage Every Playwright Too Cast Finished Product Almost Over Infinite Stage Play Cut Product Rehearsals Play Amount
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. Martin McDonagh
Success Time Me You People Queen First Beauty Think Visible Broadway Writer Never Attention First Place Because Coming Were Fame Up After Place Flee Really Prepared Level
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. Martin McDonagh
Attitude Try First Everything Bit Though Per About Seem Write Never Like Always May Story Place Last
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! Martin McDonagh
Happy Theatre Cinema Own Seldom Feel Like Equally Comfortable Empty Always Happier Full
My plays are always pushing towards cinema anyway. They're down and dirty, real and more fun. Martin McDonagh
Cinema Down More Dirty Pushing Towards Always Real Anyway Fun Plays
I realize that I am never going to grow up. Martin McDonagh
Never Am Up Going Realize Grow Grow Up
All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy. Martin McDonagh
Sad Work Balance Comedy Black Despairing Melancholy All My Work Kind Black Comedy Shares Between
I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work. Martin McDonagh
Work Hope All My Work Kind Some Morality
My usual trick with the Irish plays is to set things on islands I've never been to. Martin McDonagh
Trick Never Islands Been Irish Usual Things Set Plays
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. Martin McDonagh
Humanity Bit More Empathy Learned Fake Least
I've always been very honest about what's good and bad in my writing. That honesty might have made me sound arrogant sometimes, when I was talking about work I thought was good. Martin McDonagh
Work Good Me Honesty Writing Sometimes Thought Made Arrogant Bad About Talking Always Sound Been Very Might Good And Bad Honest
Everything went perfectly on 'In Bruges.' It was constant warfare, but I won all the battles and was really happy working with the actors and everything on the film. Martin McDonagh
Happy Everything Battles Constant Perfectly Won Warfare Really Working Film Actor
There's no point in me meeting with a bunch of producers or studios, because I'll write my own scripts in my own time. Martin McDonagh
Time Me Own Meeting My Own No Point Point Write Studios Because Bunch Scripts Producers

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