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

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

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

It doesn't feel like you're preaching, if you can say something in a joke.

- Martin Mcdonagh

It's the periods and the commas that you have to forget about. The words never change, but the intonations change.

- 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 …

- Martin Mcdonagh

All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.

- 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'…

- Martin Mcdonagh