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" A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse. "
Family
Collapse
Couple
" Almost every play is 10, 15 minutes too long. "
Every
Minutes
Long
" 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. "
Soul
Play
People
" 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. "
Go
Theatre
See
" But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong. "
Wrong
Sort
Person
" 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. "
Proud
Think
Like
" Enough people like me. Enough to let me sleep at night. "
Sleep
Me
Night
" Great comedy is always sadistic. "
Sadistic
Great
Always
" I come back to the theatre happily knowing that while it won't make me rich, it will provide me with fun. "
Knowing
Me
Rich
" I consider myself a Jewish writer, like all my heroes: Tom Stoppard, David Mamet, Philip Roth, Arthur Miller, Woody Allen. "
Jewish
Like
Myself
" 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. "
Best
You
Loved
" I did have a midlife crisis. "
Crisis
Did
" I dispute that 'Closer' is about betrayal. Betrayal is one of the elements. "
About
Closer
Elements
" I don't feel so alive if I'm not being creative. "
Being
Alive
Feel
" I don't try to be likeable. The worst thing people do is present versions of themselves to the world that aren't real. "
World
Worst
Try
" If I get anything out, producing anything, no matter whether it's good or not, I allow myself a little pat on the back. "
Good
Matter
Myself
" 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. "
Chance
Decision
Movies
" 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. "
Fear
Start
People
" 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. "
Power
Rest
Meeting
" 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. "
Know
You
Sometimes
" 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. "
Heart
Mistakes
Myself
" 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. "
Think
Awards
Golden
" I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic. "
Think
Get
I Think
" I'm a Jew. I think of myself as a Jew first and Englishman second. "
First
Second
Think
" I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency. "
Having
Constantly
Addictive
" 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. "
New
New York
Film
" In 2012, I really thought, 'That's it. It's over. I've written what I can write.' "
Over
Really
Thought
" 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. "
Film
Mean
Me
" I think I write serious comedies. I would love to be able to write for pure pleasure, but the undertow is always loneliness. "
Think
Always
Loneliness
" I think writing is a glorious and noble thing. "
Think
Glorious
I Think
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