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All Quotes by author - Jez Butterworth
" I actually have blissfully romantic views of marriage, because that has been my experience of it. "
Experience
Because
Romantic
" 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. "
Trying
Experience
I Can
" I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience. "
Think
Responsibility
Good
" 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. "
Bag
You
Know
" I grew up in a household that was very left wing. "
Left
Up
Wing
" I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius. "
Vehicle
Genius
Comedy
" I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past. "
Feeling
Present
Seeing
" 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. "
Going
Run
Little
" Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting. "
Time
Looking
Looking Back
" 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. "
Politics
Attitude
Child
" 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. "
You
Choose
Change
" 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. "
Voice
Funny
Experience
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