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" It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way. "
Patrick Marber
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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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See
" 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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Meeting
" Most of what I write is comedy. "
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Most
" 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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Matter
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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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Knowing
Me
Rich
" 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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Chance
Decision
Movies
" A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse. "
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Family
Collapse
Couple
" 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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Worst
Try
" Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level. "
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Any
First
Art
" 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
" Almost every play is 10, 15 minutes too long. "
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Every
Minutes
Long
" I don't feel so alive if I'm not being creative. "
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Being
Alive
Feel
" I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency. "
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Having
Constantly
Addictive
" 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
" 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
" 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 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
" 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. "
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Year
Know
Brilliant
" I consider myself a Jewish writer, like all my heroes: Tom Stoppard, David Mamet, Philip Roth, Arthur Miller, Woody Allen. "
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Jewish
Like
Myself
" 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
" 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
" When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice. "
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Back
Believe
Choice
" When I couldn't write, I felt like a zombie. "
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Zombie
Felt
Write
" 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'm a Jew. I think of myself as a Jew first and Englishman second. "
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First
Second
Think
" In 2012, I really thought, 'That's it. It's over. I've written what I can write.' "
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Over
Really
Thought
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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