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Jez Butterworth Quotes

English - Dramatist | 1969 -

My father got a trade union scholarship to Oxford; he lived and breathed politics; he was always watching current-affairs programmes. But I have a five-year-old child's attitude towards the news. Mainly, that it absolutely turns me off.

Jez Butterworth

Father Attitude Politics Child Me

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

Jez Butterworth

Time Looking Back Looking Back Been

When you have kids, you can choose to make them like you, or become like them, and if you've got something that's going to change every six days or six minutes, you can decide to be as awake and alive and learning as they are.

Jez Butterworth

Change Learning You Choose Alive

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

Music Time Experience Trying I Can

I grew up in a household that was very left wing.

Jez Butterworth

Up Left Wing Very Household Grew

I actually have blissfully romantic views of marriage, because that has been my experience of it.

Jez Butterworth

Marriage Romantic Experience Been

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

Jez Butterworth

Good Responsibility Think Neighbors

Writing for 'Rooster' was a strange experience. It's funny, once you tap into a voice, words just start to flow. You know when you've hit a spirit or captured something.

Jez Butterworth

Funny Experience Words Writing Start

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

Jez Butterworth

Love Past Present Seeing Feeling

I understood very little about the significance of the Tony before, but I've learned that it makes a huge significance to whether or not your show is going to run.

Jez Butterworth

Run Little Going Show Understood

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

Character People Feel Bag You Know

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

Jez Butterworth

Love Genius Comedy Guy Vehicle Lee

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