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" I think writing is a glorious and noble thing. "
Patrick Marber
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Glorious
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" 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
" It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way. "
Patrick Marber
Reasons
Way
Sniff
" But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong. "
Patrick Marber
Wrong
Sort
Person
" 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
" I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic. "
Patrick Marber
Think
Get
I Think
" I come back to the theatre happily knowing that while it won't make me rich, it will provide me with fun. "
Patrick Marber
Knowing
Me
Rich
" Oh, I would love to be in Don Juan's shoes for a weekend. Not that I was ever handsome enough to be a Don Juan. "
Patrick Marber
Love
Shoes
Weekend
" 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
" Most of what I write is comedy. "
Patrick Marber
Write
I Write
Most
" 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. "
Patrick Marber
Know
You
Sometimes
" 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
Fear
Start
People
" 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. "
Patrick Marber
Early
Love
Love Life
" I did have a midlife crisis. "
Patrick Marber
Crisis
Did
" My whole life has a Jewish flavour. "
Patrick Marber
Whole
Jewish
Life
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Patrick Marber
Film
Mean
Me
" When I couldn't write, I felt like a zombie. "
Patrick Marber
Zombie
Felt
Write
" 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
" 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
" 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
Go
Theatre
See
" My dialogue probably reveals the paranoia of the stand-up: if you're not quick and interesting, they will be gone. "
Patrick Marber
You
Will
Dialogue
" I think I write serious comedies. I would love to be able to write for pure pleasure, but the undertow is always loneliness. "
Patrick Marber
Think
Always
Loneliness
" 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
" I dispute that 'Closer' is about betrayal. Betrayal is one of the elements. "
Patrick Marber
About
Closer
Elements
" 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
" 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
Year
Know
Brilliant
" A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse. "
Patrick Marber
Family
Collapse
Couple
" 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
" Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level. "
Patrick Marber
Any
First
Art