Theatre was an art form that I didn't really respect, and because I wanted to shake it up and do different things on stage, I was able to combine all the things I'd learnt through writing on my own. Martin McDonagh More Quotes by Martin McDonagh More Quotes From Martin McDonagh All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy. Martin McDonagh comedy balance black It doesn't feel like you're preaching, if you can say something in a joke. Martin McDonagh preaching like-you feels I'd just like to thank everybody who was involved in the film, especially Brendan Gleeson and Ruaidhrí Conroy. And Ruaidhrí, I'm sorry that you couldn't be here tonight but I hope next time, if they let you into the country. Martin McDonagh tonight sorry country It's the periods and the commas that you have to forget about. The words never change, but the intonations change. Martin McDonagh never-change periods forget Dublin people think they are the center of the world and the center of Ireland. And they don't realize that people have to leave Ireland to get work, and they look down on people who do. Martin McDonagh people looks thinking I think as a writer you never have to flee from fame because you're not that visible in the first place, but, after the Broadway success of 'Beauty Queen,' people were coming up to me all the time, and I wasn't really prepared for that level of attention. Martin McDonagh queens people thinking I think if you're writing a play, it should be its own end game; you'll never get to do a good one unless you know it's not a blueprint for a film; you're not going to get the action right and the story right. Martin McDonagh play writing thinking I seldom feel comfortable in a theatre. I always feel like I own a cinema. I feel equally happy in an empty one as a full one. Probably happier in an empty one! Martin McDonagh empty cinema theatre When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there. Martin McDonagh knowing writing character I pick and choose what I want to do at any given time, and what not to do, importantly. My agents, I won't hear about any offers or options. Martin McDonagh agents given want I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right. Martin McDonagh scripts stuff writing It was this raging, painful message calling out the cops about a crime, the title came from the concept and the concept came from that image, which stayed in my mind for years. What kind of pain would lead someone to do that ? It takes a lot of guts -- and anger. Martin McDonagh top-news Three Billboards Outside Ebbings, Missouri. Martin McDonagh us I've got a fondness for rabbits. Martin McDonagh got fondness rabbits Plays were really my last option. The reason I didn't write plays initially was because I thought theatre was the worst of all the art forms. Martin McDonagh thought worst theatre art When I started out, I was very vociferously against theatre or what I saw theatre as being, so I tried to make my plays the opposite of that - something a bit more cinematic. I'm a film kid, so I'll never have the same love of theatre as I do of movies. It's just the way I was brought up. Martin McDonagh movies never love way I went to Bruges for a weekend away from London. I was supposed to be meeting a girl there the next day. It was a tentative arrangement. From the moment I saw the town, I thought, 'This place is just so cinematic, so gorgeous.' Every corner seemed to offer a new image. Martin McDonagh place day moment girl Ireland was an idyllic place for us as children. We had all these cousins and all this green countryside. Given what I've written about rural Ireland, my memories of it are all blue skies and endless play. Martin McDonagh green blue memories children I can't stand up in front of people. It just fills me with horror. Martin McDonagh stand-up stand me people I fell into the theatre because I felt I was doing it well, and I stuck to it for the same reason. Martin McDonagh well doing theatre reason
