There’s no point in me meeting with a bunch of producers or studios, because I’ll write my own scripts in my own time. Martin McDonagh Read Quote
Beauty Queen’ will always be a favourite because I think it’s a really tight play, and when it’s done right, there is a sadness to it that I love. Martin McDonagh Read Quote
Everything went perfectly on ‘In Bruges.’ It was constant warfare, but I won all the battles and was really happy working with the actors and everything on the film. Martin McDonagh Read Quote
When I started out, I was very vociferously against theatre or what I saw theatre as being, so I tried to make my plays the opposite of that – something a bit more cinematic. I’m a film kid, so I’ll never have the same love of theatre as I do of movies. It’s just the way I was brought up. Martin McDonagh Read Quote
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 Read Quote
When I’m happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there. Martin McDonagh Read Quote
My usual trick with the Irish plays is to set things on islands I’ve never been to. Martin McDonagh Read Quote
As a kid, as a poor-ish, working-class kid, even visiting America seemed like an impossible dream. Every time I ever went anywhere in America, it always felt cinematic and dreamlike and like a movie from the ’70s or something. Martin McDonagh Read Quote
I never, ever drink while writing. Never have from the start, and I’m happy that I never have to. A lot of my stuff is plot-driven and mathematical, and I think you need a clean and sober mind to pin down the logistics of that. Martin McDonagh Read Quote
