Patrick Marber
Patrick Marber
Patrick Albert Crispin Marber is an English comedian, playwright, director, puppeteer, actor, and screenwriter...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth19 September 1964
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calling nice notice people sort
It just sort of slowly... you notice more people are calling but it doesn't feel like a big shock. It's very nice but it's not shocking.
couple dramatic elegant hoped last meeting power rest structure tension underlying
I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion.
cross feels hollywood line moral pain seductive
I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that.
bit characters component feels invented wrote
It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
films mainstream mike
But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make.
horribly structures
But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.
reading school play
I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.
goodbye love-you way
Alice: It's the only way to leave. "I don't love you anymore. Goodbye." Dan: Supposing you do still love them? Alice: You don't leave.
character play always-trying
Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.
tendencies depressive vigilant
I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.
nice thinking years
I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things.
character play answers
The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play.
love-life years umpires
When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.
drug way reason
It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way.