Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.

- Jez Butterworth

A lifetime’s work, to try and say one thing that’s true.

- Jez Butterworth

I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.

- Jez Butterworth

If you can write a character who is attractive but morally reprehensible, then you've got a character. It's got to feel like people I know and it doe…

- Jez Butterworth

I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk music, for example, not really studying it nec…

- Jez Butterworth

I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius.

- Jez Butterworth