Jez Butterworth Professions : Playwright Browse All Authors Top 13 quotes by Jez Butterworth A lifetime’s work, to try and say one thing that’s true. Jez Butterworth one-thing lifetime trying 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 I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past. Jez Butterworth and-love feelings past Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting. Jez Butterworth pubs sitting should-have 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 different example trying I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius. Jez Butterworth comedy genius guy 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 choose you learning change I grew up in a household that was very left wing. Jez Butterworth very up left grew 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 me politics attitude father I actually have blissfully romantic views of marriage, because that has been my experience of it. Jez Butterworth because experience marriage romantic I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience. Jez Butterworth good think audience responsibility 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 words you experience funny 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 show going your run Similar Authors Alan Ayckbourn playwright Bonnie Greer playwright Annie Baker playwright August Wilson playwright August Strindberg playwright Athol Fugard playwright All Authors
