90 Quotes by Patrick Marber

I think a tragedy is something where the natural order of things is completely interrupted and doesn’t right itself.

I like the varying rhythm of being a writer that you have a period of being in complete isolation where it’s just you and the book and your screenplay and no-one can read it.

It’s one of the reasons I don’t do drugs. One sniff and I’d go all the way.

Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn’t really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated.

I’m constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.

A million years ago – some hairy bastard daubed a horse on the wall of his cave, he saw it, he drew it – well done! Flash forward: ‘Hello, welcome to my vlog. Today I bought a plum.

I’m a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It’s very nice. It’s a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn’t ever nominated for, for years and things.

I like them all – I don’t always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they’re decent.

I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film’s come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.