Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting. — 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
