82 Quotes by Martin McDonagh

I’d just like to thank everybody who was involved in the film, especially Brendan Gleeson and Ruaidhri Conroy. And Ruaidhri, I’m sorry that you couldn’t be here tonight, but I hope next time they let you into the country.

If you’ve got time to waste, you might as well waste it listening to people.

I've got a fondness for rabbits.

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

Plays were really my last option. The reason I didn't write plays initially was because I thought theatre was the worst of all the art forms.

I can go anywhere. In fact, for 'Three Billboards,' I was just getting on trains around America. I wrote everywhere from New York to New Mexico. I always write with pencil and paper.

I'd love to do something like 'A Canterbury Tale,' because I love the English language.

I went to Bruges for a weekend away from London. I was supposed to be meeting a girl there the next day. It was a tentative arrangement. From the moment I saw the town, I thought, 'This place is just so cinematic, so gorgeous.' Every corner seemed to offer a new image.