Jez Butterworth Quotes

#1. If you can write a character who is attractive but morally reprehensible, then you've got a character. It's got to feel like people I know and it doesn't just become a bag of tricks.

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#2. I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience.

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#3. Writing for 'Rooster' was a strange experience. It's funny, once you tap into a voice, words just start to flow. You know when you've hit a spirit or captured something.

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#4. Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.

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#5. I'm heavy stone, me. You try and pick me up, I'll break your spine.

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#6. I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius.

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#7. A lifetime's work, to try and say one thing that's true.

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#8. My father got a trade union scholarship to Oxford; he lived and breathed politics; he was always watching current-affairs programmes. But I have a five-year-old child's attitude towards the news. Mainly, that it absolutely turns me off.

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#9. The world turns. And it turns. And it moves and you don't. You're still here.

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#10. I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk music, for example, not really studying it necessarily, but just trying to experience it so I can recall it later.

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#11. Happy St George's Day. Now kiss my beggar arse, you Puritans!

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#12. I understood very little about the significance of the Tony before, but I've learned that it makes a huge significance to whether or not your show is going to run.

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#13. I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.

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#14. I actually have blissfully romantic views of marriage, because that has been my experience of it.

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#15. When you have kids, you can choose to make them like you, or become like them, and if you've got something that's going to change every six days or six minutes, you can decide to be as awake and alive and learning as they are.

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#16. Come, you drunken spirits. Come, you battalions. You fields of ghosts who walk these green plains still. Come, you giants!

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