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, in the world, with violence. I think that comedy lightens the heaviness [of the world].
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…
- 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
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…
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…
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 …
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'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.
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.
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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