Anthony McCarten

Life is not a waste of time.

— Anthony McCarten

“Life, especially in relation to other women, would always be a competition, one she would rarely win.”

— Anthony McCarten

You can't write a character more brilliant than yourself. It's just not physically possible.

— Anthony McCarten

At some point early on, I realized that three of the greatest speeches ever delivered were by Winston Churchill, and they were…

— Anthony McCarten

The New Zealand sense of humor is tough and realistic. Jokes are not surreal; they are about life and death and tough…

— Anthony McCarten

“Loss, this was what he felt. Loss and deprivation. One man owns, another man craves - the craving far more passionate than…

— Anthony McCarten

Before Churchill had done anything else, he was a writer. He believed to the core that words matter. They count. They can…

— Anthony McCarten

When I was growing up in the '80s and working in the theater, David Mamet exploded with a whole new reworking of…

— Anthony McCarten

Commercial success and quality are not necessarily allied.

— Anthony McCarten

If you look at the copies of Churchill's speeches that have survived, they are heavily marked up. He was scrupulous about the…

— Anthony McCarten

As you get older, you become more vain. But as your looks slowly deteriorate, your eyesight worsens, so it all balances out.

— Anthony McCarten

The more I read about the rules the great orators used, the more I realised, of course, this is how you stir…

— Anthony McCarten

I'm still always surprised that anyone might be interested in my work or me.

— Anthony McCarten

No murder or sin or act of barbarism or cruelty has ever been committed by a person fully absorbed in the reading…

— Anthony McCarten

It turns out we are all quite easily swayed if someone knows what they are doing - which is a great thing…

— Anthony McCarten