When you have kids, you can choose to make them like you, or become like them, and if you've got something that's going to change every six days or six minutes, you can decide to be as awake and alive… — Jez Butterworth Copy Share Image
Writing for 'Rooster' was a strange experience. It's funny, once you tap into a voice, words just start to flow. You know when you've… — Jez Butterworth Copy Share Image
I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience. — Jez Butterworth Copy Share Image
When you have kids, you can choose to make them like you, or become like them, and if you've got something that's going to… — Jez Butterworth Copy Share Image
Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting. — Jez Butterworth Copy Share Image
“I, Rooster John Byron, hereby place a curse Upon the Kennet and Avon Council, May they wander the land for ever, Never sleep twice… — Jez Butterworth Copy Share Image
If you can write a character who is attractive but morally reprehensible, then you've got a character. It's got to feel like people I… — Jez Butterworth Copy Share Image
I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past. — Jez Butterworth Copy Share Image
I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk music, for… — Jez Butterworth Copy Share Image
My father got a trade union scholarship to Oxford; he lived and breathed politics; he was always watching current-affairs programmes. But I have a… — Jez Butterworth Copy Share Image
I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius. — Jez Butterworth Copy Share Image
I actually have blissfully romantic views of marriage, because that has been my experience of it. — Jez Butterworth Copy Share Image
“I may bring other women here, to this place, and I may tell them I love them, and make love to them. But they… — Jez Butterworth Copy Share Image
I understood very little about the significance of the Tony before, but I've learned that it makes a huge significance to whether or not… — Jez Butterworth Copy Share Image
