Jez Butterworth
Jez Butterworth
Jeremy "Jez" Butterworthis an English playwright, screenwriter, and film director. He has written screenplays in collaboration with his brothers, John-Henry and Tom...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDramatist
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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.
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I actually have blissfully romantic views of marriage, because that has been my experience of it.
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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.
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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.
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A lifetime’s work, to try and say one thing that’s true.
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Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.
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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.
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I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius.
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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.