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" If I get anything out, producing anything, no matter whether it's good or not, I allow myself a little pat on the back. "

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" Most of what I write is comedy. "

" 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. "

" I come back to the theatre happily knowing that while it won't make me rich, it will provide me with fun. "

" In 2012, I really thought, 'That's it. It's over. I've written what I can write.' "

" 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. "

" My dialogue probably reveals the paranoia of the stand-up: if you're not quick and interesting, they will be gone. "

" When I couldn't write, I felt like a zombie. "

" 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. "

" I'm a Jew. I think of myself as a Jew first and Englishman second. "

" It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way. "

" But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong. "

" I don't try to be likeable. The worst thing people do is present versions of themselves to the world that aren't real. "

" 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. "

" I consider myself a Jewish writer, like all my heroes: Tom Stoppard, David Mamet, Philip Roth, Arthur Miller, Woody Allen. "

" 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. "

" I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level. "

" 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. "

" When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice. "

" 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. "

" I don't feel so alive if I'm not being creative. "

" 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. "

" I did have a midlife crisis. "

" I think writing is a glorious and noble thing. "