17 Quotes by Jez Butterworth

I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.

I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk music, for example, not really studying it necessarily, but just trying to experience it so I can recall it later.

Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.

A lifetime’s work, to try and say one thing that’s true.

I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience.

The world turns. And it turns. And it moves and you don’t. You’re still here.

Come, you drunken spirits. Come, you battalions. You fields of ghosts who walk these green plains still. Come, you giants!

I’m heavy stone, me. You try and pick me up, I’ll break your spine.