Martin McDonagh
Martin McDonagh
Martin McDonaghis a playwright, screenwriter and film director, born and brought up in London with both British and Irish citizenship. He has been described as one of the most important living Irish playwrights...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth26 March 1970
front
I can't stand up in front of people. It just fills me with horror.
fell felt
I fell into the theatre because I felt I was doing it well, and I stuck to it for the same reason.
morality kind
I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.
forget never-change periods
It's the periods and the commas that you have to forget about. The words never change, but the intonations change.
smart directors film
I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around.
growing-up realizing grows
I realize that I am never going to grow up.
dynamics stuff never-quit
When you've got good actors, they're going to come up with good stuff, but you're never quite sure how the dynamics are going to work between them.
like-you preaching feels
It doesn't feel like you're preaching, if you can say something in a joke.
fiction film made
'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good.
heart years waiting
An Irishman I am, begora! With a heart and a spirit on me not crushed be a hundred years of oppression. I'll be getting me shillelagh out next, wait'll you see.
block thinking sitting-down
I don't even subscribe to writer's block being a truthful thing. I've had writer's laziness quite often. But I think it's all about sitting down and facing down the blank page and doing it, and I've always been ok at that.
black balance comedy
All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.
behinds
It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind
queens thinking people
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.