82 Quotes by 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; you're not going to get the action right and the story right.

I seldom feel comfortable in a theatre. I always feel like I own a cinema. I feel equally happy in an empty one as a full one. Probably happier in an empty one!

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.

I pick and choose what I want to do at any given time, and what not to do, importantly. My agents, I won't hear about any offers or options.

It doesn't feel like you're preaching, if you can say something in a joke.

When you've got good actors, they're going to come up with good stuff, but you're never quite sure how the dynamics are going to work between them.

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

I realize that I am never going to grow up.

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].