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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
couple play collapse
A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
thank-god world body
Thank God life ends—we'd never survive it. From Big Bang to weary shag, the history of the world. Our flesh is ferocious...our bodies will kill us...our bones will outlive us.
versions
Everything is a version of something else.
easy feels i-can
Where is this love? I can't see it, I can't touch it. I can't feel it. I can hear it. I can hear some words, but I can't do anything with your easy words