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.
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.
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.
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.
writing thinking games
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.
theatre cinema empty
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!
attitude writing trying
Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story. Story is everything. Story and a bit of attitude.
agents want given
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.
way feels being-irish
I don't feel I have to defend myself for being English or for being Irish, because, in a way, I don't feel either. And, in another way, of course, I'm both.