I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we? We are all extreme in one way or another at times and that's what drama, since the Greeks, has dealt with. I hope the overall view isn't just that though, or I've failed in my writing. There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies.
An Irishman I am, begora! With a heart and a spirit on me not crushed be a hundred years of oppression. I'll be getting me shillelagh out next, wai… - Martin Mcdonagh
An Irishman I am, begora! With a heart and a spirit on me not crushed be a hundred years of oppression. I'll be getting me shillelagh out next, wai…
- Martin Mcdonagh
I think if you're writing a play, it should be its own end game; you'll never get to do a good one unless you know it's not a blueprint for a film; y… - Martin Mcdonagh
I think if you're writing a play, it should be its own end game; you'll never get to do a good one unless you know it's not a blueprint for a film; y…
It's the way that I think about the world, and the way that I like to tell stories - I don't think you should get too heavy. There's enough out there… - Martin Mcdonagh
It's the way that I think about the world, and the way that I like to tell stories - I don't think you should get too heavy. There's enough out there…
There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art li… - Martin Mcdonagh
There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art li…
It doesn't feel like you're preaching, if you can say something in a joke. - Martin Mcdonagh
It doesn't feel like you're preaching, if you can say something in a joke.
It's the periods and the commas that you have to forget about. The words never change, but the intonations change. - Martin Mcdonagh
It's the periods and the commas that you have to forget about. The words never change, but the intonations change.
Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story. Story is everything. Story and … - Martin Mcdonagh
Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story. Story is everything. Story and …
All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy. - Martin Mcdonagh
All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.
I don't feel I have to defend myself for being English or for being Irish, because, in a way, I don't feel either. And, in another way, of course, I'… - Martin Mcdonagh
I don't feel I have to defend myself for being English or for being Irish, because, in a way, I don't feel either. And, in another way, of course, I'…
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