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" 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
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" 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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Sometimes
" Great comedy is always sadistic. "
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Great
Always
" 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
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" 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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Think
Like
" I don't feel so alive if I'm not being creative. "
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Being
Alive
Feel
" I consider myself a Jewish writer, like all my heroes: Tom Stoppard, David Mamet, Philip Roth, Arthur Miller, Woody Allen. "
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Myself
" But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong. "
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Person
" 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 did have a midlife crisis. "
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Crisis
Did
" When I couldn't write, I felt like a zombie. "
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Zombie
Felt
Write
" My dialogue probably reveals the paranoia of the stand-up: if you're not quick and interesting, they will be gone. "
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You
Will
Dialogue
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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'm a Jew. I think of myself as a Jew first and Englishman second. "
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First
Second
Think
" 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. "
Patrick Marber
Power
Rest
Meeting
" 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
" 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
" Almost every play is 10, 15 minutes too long. "
Patrick Marber
Every
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. "
Patrick Marber
Parents
School
Good
" A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse. "
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Family
Collapse
Couple
" 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'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency. "
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Having
Constantly
Addictive
" I think writing is a glorious and noble thing. "
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Think
Glorious
I Think
" 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 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
" Enough people like me. Enough to let me sleep at night. "
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Sleep
Me
Night
" 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'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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Loved