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" 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. "
Patrick Marber
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" Most of what I write is comedy. "
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" But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong. "
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" I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency. "
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" I think writing is a glorious and noble thing. "
Patrick Marber
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I Think
" 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. "
Patrick Marber
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Start
People
" 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. "
Patrick Marber
Heart
Mistakes
Myself
" 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. "
Patrick Marber
Soul
Play
People
" 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. "
Patrick Marber
Relationship
Dialogue
Life
" My whole life has a Jewish flavour. "
Patrick Marber
Whole
Jewish
Life
" 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. "
Patrick Marber
Best
You
Loved
" A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse. "
Patrick Marber
Family
Collapse
Couple
" If I get anything out, producing anything, no matter whether it's good or not, I allow myself a little pat on the back. "
Patrick Marber
Good
Matter
Myself
" Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level. "
Patrick Marber
Any
First
Art
" 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. "
Patrick Marber
Potential
Train
Pleasure
" 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. "
Patrick Marber
Proud
Think
Like
" I don't try to be likeable. The worst thing people do is present versions of themselves to the world that aren't real. "
Patrick Marber
World
Worst
Try
" 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. "
Patrick Marber
Chance
Decision
Movies
" I don't feel so alive if I'm not being creative. "
Patrick Marber
Being
Alive
Feel
" 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. "
Patrick Marber
Parents
School
Good
" I dispute that 'Closer' is about betrayal. Betrayal is one of the elements. "
Patrick Marber
About
Closer
Elements
" Great comedy is always sadistic. "
Patrick Marber
Sadistic
Great
Always
" When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice. "
Patrick Marber
Back
Believe
Choice
" I'm a Jew. I think of myself as a Jew first and Englishman second. "
Patrick Marber
First
Second
Think
" When I couldn't write, I felt like a zombie. "
Patrick Marber
Zombie
Felt
Write
" Almost every play is 10, 15 minutes too long. "
Patrick Marber
Every
Minutes
Long
" 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. "
Patrick Marber
Life
Emotions
My Life
" 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. "
Patrick Marber
New
New York
Film
" I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic. "
Patrick Marber
Think
Get
I Think
" Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated. "
Patrick Marber
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Know
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