Jez Butterworth

Writing for 'Rooster' was a strange experience. It's funny, once you tap into a voice, words just start to flow. You know…

— Jez Butterworth

I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience.

— Jez Butterworth

When you have kids, you can choose to make them like you, or become like them, and if you've got something that's…

— Jez Butterworth

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

— Jez Butterworth

“I, Rooster John Byron, hereby place a curse Upon the Kennet and Avon Council, May they wander the land for ever, Never…

— Jez Butterworth

I grew up in a household that was very left wing.

— Jez Butterworth

A lifetime’s work, to try and say one thing that’s true.

— Jez Butterworth

If you can write a character who is attractive but morally reprehensible, then you've got a character. It's got to feel like…

— Jez Butterworth

I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.

— Jez Butterworth

I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk…

— Jez Butterworth

My father got a trade union scholarship to Oxford; he lived and breathed politics; he was always watching current-affairs programmes. But I…

— Jez Butterworth

I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius.

— Jez Butterworth

I actually have blissfully romantic views of marriage, because that has been my experience of it.

— Jez Butterworth

“I may bring other women here, to this place, and I may tell them I love them, and make love to them.…

— Jez Butterworth

I understood very little about the significance of the Tony before, but I've learned that it makes a huge significance to whether…

— Jez Butterworth