I'm a Jew. I think of myself as a Jew first and Englishman second. Patrick Marber More Quotes by Patrick Marber More Quotes From Patrick Marber We arrive with our...'baggage' and for a while they're brilliant, they're 'Baggage Handlers.' We say, 'Where's your baggage?' They deny all knowledge of it...'They're in love'...they have none. Then...just as you're relaxing...a Great Big Juggernaut arrives...with their baggage. It Got Held Up. One of the greatest myths men have about women is that we overpack. Patrick Marber age love men The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play. Patrick Marber play writing character When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice. Patrick Marber choices stupid believe I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic. Patrick Marber optimistic men thinking 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. Patrick Marber awards nice thinking 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. Patrick Marber new-york play mean Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it. Patrick Marber always-trying play character 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. Patrick Marber uncles mistake heart I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency. Patrick Marber depressive vigilant tendencies My life is in dialogue with the plays that I write. The relationship I have with my plays is very, very intimate, and I dot my life through them. Patrick Marber my-life through relationship life It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it. Patrick Marber doing feel know me I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that. Patrick Marber know you pain sometimes I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion. Patrick Marber meeting rest you power But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong. Patrick Marber wrong person who go But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make. Patrick Marber own like think proud A part of me would like to see the money go to hospitals or housing, but I have benefited so greatly from funding for the National Theatre, which has been incredible. Patrick Marber go me theatre money I dispute that 'Closer' is about betrayal. Betrayal is one of the elements. Patrick Marber closer about betrayal elements My dialogue probably reveals the paranoia of the stand-up: if you're not quick and interesting, they will be gone. Patrick Marber will you dialogue interesting Great comedy is always sadistic. Patrick Marber great always sadistic comedy My whole life has a Jewish flavour. Patrick Marber jewish whole life
