Martin McDonagh Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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.

  Martin McDonagh

  Art, Real, Drama

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there.

  Martin McDonagh

  Writing, Character, Knowing

• I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.

  Martin McDonagh

  Writing, Stuff, Scripts

• Theatre was an art form that I didn't really respect, and because I wanted to shake it up and do different things on stage, I was able to combine all the things I'd learnt through writing on my own.

  Martin McDonagh

  Art, Writing, Theatre

• 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 a bit of attitude.

  Martin McDonagh

  Attitude, Writing, Trying

  "The wild west" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2001.

• 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; you're not going to get the action right and the story right.

  Martin McDonagh

  Writing, Thinking, Play

  "Interview: Martin McDonagh On A ‘Pillowman’ Movie, ‘Seven Psychopaths’ And The Genius Of Sam Rockwell". Interview with Oliver Lyttelton, www.indiewire.com. December 6, 2012.

• I never really tell anyone what I'm writing beforehand because I usually don't know what it will be.

  Martin McDonagh

  Writing

  Source: collider.com

• I love actors. Part of that is my theater background and being a writer who cares about performance. Actors have usually chosen their profession because they have a dream of doing it and they want to express something about the world. That's the same thing that I have with writing. Most of the good actors get into it for those reason, rather than for reasons of fame or fortune, or anything like that, and that's where I'm coming from, as a storyteller.

  Martin McDonagh

  Dream, Writing, World

  "Martin McDonagh on Directing 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' and Writing for Frances McDormand". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 12, 2017.

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