I like Quentin Tarantino, especially the early films, but I'm a big fan of Billy Wilder and Preston Sturges... you know, people were writing great di…

- John Michael Mcdonagh

I had a bad experience on Ned Kelly, which I'd written the screenplay for. I thought: "Well Jesus, if these are the type of people directing movies I…

- John Michael Mcdonagh

Sometimes I might go too far with the pretentious references, which I might not do again. But when you're writing, you're sitting alone in a room so …

- John Michael Mcdonagh

Basically, you can't make a pop culture reference now without someone saying it's Tarantino-esque or post-Tarantino and I'm like where's that all com…

- John Michael Mcdonagh

Eventually, in the editing movie you have to look at it as if you hadn't written it. So, you have to be a bit more brutal.

- John Michael Mcdonagh

When you've written a script, if an actor has a question you're the writer as well as the director, so you have the answer. And if you don't, then yo…

- John Michael Mcdonagh

The thing with America is that... however you want to denigrate them for being crass or whatever, with a film that they like and think is well writte…

- John Michael Mcdonagh

I presume that each country will have a different response to each joke. But mostly what I've seen is that everyone has the same response. The line a…

- John Michael Mcdonagh

I can't compete with the Michael Bays of the world in regard to special effects and that kind of stuff. But you can compete in the dialogue and the o…

- John Michael Mcdonagh