Jez Butterworth Quotes

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

  Jez Butterworth

  Trying, Lifetime, One Thing

  "All or Nothing" by Emma Brockes, www.newyorker.com. November 10, 2014.

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

  Jez Butterworth

  Past, Feelings, And Love

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• If you can write a character who is attractive but morally reprehensible, then you've got a character. It's got to feel like people I know and it doesn't just become a bag of tricks.

  Jez Butterworth

  Writing, Character, People

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

  Jez Butterworth

  Should Have, Sitting, Pubs

  "The grass is greener" by Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2009.

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• 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.

  Jez Butterworth

  Trying, Example, Different

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• I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius.

  Jez Butterworth

  Guy, Genius, Comedy

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