Quotes by Martin McDonagh

Martin McDonagh

‘Pulp Fiction’ is an amazing film, and I haven’t made one nearly as good.

Fiction

Film

Made

All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.

Balance

Black

Comedy

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.

Heart

Waiting

Years

Dublin people think they are the center of the world and the center of Ireland. And they don’t realize that people have to leave Ireland to get work, and they look down on people who do.

Looks

People

Thinking

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.

Block

Sitting Down

Thinking

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.

Being Irish

Feels

Way

I hope there’s some kind of morality in all my work.

Kind

Morality

I like traveling and I like not being part of the film world. Especially when you’re in the middle of a junket, you’re thinking, “I’m not doing this again for four years!”That’s about taking time and finding the right story and being in a happy place in life where you can joyfully tell a story. I’m not really into the fame side of things, so I’m very happy with making a film every four years or so.

Film

Thinking

World

I love actors. Part of that is my theater background and being a writer who cares about performance. Actors have usually chosen their profession because they have a dream of doing it and they want to express something about the world. That’s the same thing that I have with writing. Most of the good actors get into it for those reason, rather than for reasons of fame or fortune, or anything like that, and that’s where I’m coming from, as a storyteller.

Dream

World

Writing

I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around.

Directors

Film

Smart

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Being Irish

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Dirty

Drama

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Dynamics

Empty

Facts

Feels

Fiction

Film

Forget

Fun

Given

Growing Up

Grows

Heart

Ideas

Kind

Knowing

Like You

Listening

Looks

Lying

Made

Morality

Never Change

People

Periods

Play

Preaching

Queens

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Realizing

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Quotes by Martin McDonagh

Martin McDonagh

‘Pulp Fiction’ is an amazing film, and I haven’t made one nearly as good.

All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.

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.

Dublin people think they are the center of the world and the center of Ireland. And they don’t realize that people have to leave Ireland to get work, and they look down on people who do.

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.

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.

I hope there’s some kind of morality in all my work.

I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around.

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