Jez Butterworth quotes

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)

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

Jez Butterworth

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

Jez Butterworth

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

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

Jez Butterworth

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

Jez Butterworth

Jez Butterworth

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Occupation: English Dramatist
Born: 1969
Quotes count: 6