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" In 2012, I really thought, 'That's it. It's over. I've written what I can write.' "
Patrick Marber
Over
Really
Thought
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" Enough people like me. Enough to let me sleep at night. "
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" 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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Relationship
Dialogue
Life
" A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse. "
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Collapse
Couple
" Great comedy is always sadistic. "
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Sadistic
Great
Always
" It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way. "
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Way
Sniff
" Almost every play is 10, 15 minutes too long. "
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Minutes
Long
" 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'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. "
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Think
Awards
Golden
" 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
New York
Film
" 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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Knowing
Me
Rich
" 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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Soul
Play
People
" 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. "
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Film
Mean
Me
" 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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Go
Theatre
See
" 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. "
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Love
Shoes
Weekend
" Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level. "
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Any
First
Art
" 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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Know
You
Sometimes
" 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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Power
Rest
Meeting
" 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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World
Worst
Try
" 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. "
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Best
You
Loved
" 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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Fear
Start
People
" But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong. "
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Wrong
Sort
Person
" I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic. "
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Think
Get
I Think
" 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
Pleasure
" I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency. "
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Having
Constantly
Addictive
" 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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Good
Matter
Myself
" I think writing is a glorious and noble thing. "
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Think
Glorious
I Think
" I'm a Jew. I think of myself as a Jew first and Englishman second. "
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First
Second
Think
" 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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Heart
Mistakes
Myself
" I think I write serious comedies. I would love to be able to write for pure pleasure, but the undertow is always loneliness. "
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Think
Always
Loneliness
" 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
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