When I started out, I was very vociferously against theatre or what I saw theatre as being, so I tried to make my plays the opposite of that - something a bit more cinematic. I'm a film kid, so I'll… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
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… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
Theatre was an art form that I didn't really respect, and because I wanted to shake it up and do different things on stage,… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
I try to naturally keep things to a manageable storytelling length, which is about two hours, so you try to cut out anything extraneous. — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy. — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we? We are all extreme in one way or another at times and that's what drama, since the Greeks, has dealt with. I hope the overall view isn't just that though, or I've failed in my writing. There have… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share
As a kid, as a poor-ish, working-class kid, even visiting America seemed like an impossible dream. Every time I ever went anywhere in America,… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
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… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share
I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around. — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there. — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
I'm not really into the fame side of things, so I'm very happy with making a film every four years or so. — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
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… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
