I like traveling and I like not being part of the film world. Especially when you're in the middle of a junket,… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
It's the way that I think about the world, and the way that I like to tell stories - I don't think… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
I love actors. Part of that is my theater background and being a writer who cares about performance. Actors have usually chosen… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
Dublin people think they are the center of the world and the center of Ireland. And they don't realize that people have… — 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… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
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,… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
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
