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" I consider myself a Jewish writer, like all my heroes: Tom Stoppard, David Mamet, Philip Roth, Arthur Miller, Woody Allen. "
Patrick Marber
Jewish
Like
Myself
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" I don't try to be likeable. The worst thing people do is present versions of themselves to the world that aren't real. "
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" I think writing is a glorious and noble thing. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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Play
People
" 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. "
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" I did have a midlife crisis. "
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" My dialogue probably reveals the paranoia of the stand-up: if you're not quick and interesting, they will be gone. "
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" I come back to the theatre happily knowing that while it won't make me rich, it will provide me with fun. "
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" When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice. "
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Choice
" Most of what I write is comedy. "
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Most
" Almost every play is 10, 15 minutes too long. "
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Long
" 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. "
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Proud
Think
Like
" 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. "
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Sometimes
" When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years. "
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Early
Love
Love Life
" My whole life has a Jewish flavour. "
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Whole
Jewish
Life
" 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. "
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Life
Emotions
My Life
" 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. "
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Parents
School
Good
" 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. "
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Myself
" 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. "
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Potential
Train
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" Great comedy is always sadistic. "
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Sadistic
Great
Always
" I dispute that 'Closer' is about betrayal. Betrayal is one of the elements. "
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Elements
" Enough people like me. Enough to let me sleep at night. "
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Me
Night
" Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level. "
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First
Art
" When I couldn't write, I felt like a zombie. "
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Zombie
Felt
Write
" I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency. "
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Having
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Addictive
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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New York
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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