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" I think if you're writing a play, it should be its own end game; you'll never get to do a good one unless you know it's not a blueprint for a film; you're not going to get the action right and the story right. "

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" Ireland was an idyllic place for us as children. We had all these cousins and all this green countryside. Given what I've written about rural Ireland, my memories of it are all blue skies and endless play. "

Martin McDonagh

Children

Green

Memories

" Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story. Story is everything. Story and a bit of attitude. "

" I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work. "

" I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right. "

" The fact that ticket prices are way too expensive, and there's only one bunch of people going to see Broadway shows, is something I've never liked. "

" I fell into the theatre because I felt I was doing it well, and I stuck to it for the same reason. "

" I don't feel I have to defend myself for being English or for being Irish, because, in a way, I don't feel either. And, in another way, of course, I'm both. "

" I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around. "

" I don't even subscribe to writer's block being a truthful thing. I've had writer's laziness quite often. But I think it's all about sitting down and facing down the blank page and doing it, and I've always been ok at that. "

" I've got a fondness for rabbits. "

" When you've got good actors, they're going to come up with good stuff, but you're never quite sure how the dynamics are going to work between them. "

" I pick and choose what I want to do at any given time, and what not to do, importantly. My agents, I won't hear about any offers or options. "

" I can go anywhere. In fact, for 'Three Billboards,' I was just getting on trains around America. I wrote everywhere from New York to New Mexico. I always write with pencil and paper. "

" I seldom feel comfortable in a theatre. I always feel like I own a cinema. I feel equally happy in an empty one as a full one. Probably happier in an empty one! "

" Theatre was an art form that I didn't really respect, and because I wanted to shake it up and do different things on stage, I was able to combine all the things I'd learnt through writing on my own. "

" All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy. "

" There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies. "

" It's like two years straight out of your life doing a film. It's very enjoyable, especially working with the guys, but I kind of like the idea of traveling and growing, and developing as a writer and as a filmmaker. "

" With a stage play, they can't cut a word; you can be in rehearsals every day, you cast it, you cast the director, too; the amount of control for a playwright is almost infinite, so you have that control over the finished product. "

" Dublin people think they are the center of the world and the center of Ireland. And they don't realize that people have to leave Ireland to get work, and they look down on people who do. "

" I realize that I am never going to grow up. "

" My plays are always pushing towards cinema anyway. They're down and dirty, real and more fun. "

" I can't stand up in front of people. It just fills me with horror. "

Martin McDonagh

People

Stand Up

" I think as a writer you never have to flee from fame because you're not that visible in the first place, but, after the Broadway success of 'Beauty Queen,' people were coming up to me all the time, and I wasn't really prepared for that level of attention. "

Martin McDonagh

Beauty

Success