Martin McDonagh

When I heard the Pogues, I connected with the songs immediately, but it was also the first time I didn't reject out…

— Martin McDonagh

I've got a fondness for rabbits.

— Martin McDonagh

There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real…

— Martin McDonagh

There's no point in me meeting with a bunch of producers or studios, because I'll write my own scripts in my own…

— Martin McDonagh

I think if you're writing a play, it should be its own end game; you'll never get to do a good one…

— Martin McDonagh

It doesn't feel like you're preaching, if you can say something in a joke.

— Martin McDonagh

I'd just like to thank everybody who was involved in the film, especially Brendan Gleeson and Ruaidhrí Conroy. And Ruaidhrí, I'm sorry…

— Martin McDonagh

I probably haven't had enough gay characters in my stuff. When you're writing something, you're thinking, 'Why couldn't this person be black,…

— Martin McDonagh

Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last,…

— Martin McDonagh

My usual trick with the Irish plays is to set things on islands I've never been to.

— Martin McDonagh

The fact that ticket prices are way too expensive, and there's only one bunch of people going to see Broadway shows, is…

— Martin McDonagh

I don't find it easy for me to talk about me.

— Martin McDonagh

I love actors. Part of that is my theater background and being a writer who cares about performance. Actors have usually chosen…

— Martin McDonagh

I don't even subscribe to writer's block being a truthful thing. I've had writer's laziness quite often. But I think it's all…

— Martin McDonagh

I've always been very honest about what's good and bad in my writing. That honesty might have made me sound arrogant sometimes,…

— Martin McDonagh

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

I've learned not to be such a show-off and to have a bit more empathy with humanity. Or at least to fake…

— Martin McDonagh

“Right at this moment, I don't care if they kill me. I don't care. But they're not going to kill my stories.…

— Martin McDonagh

I can go anywhere. In fact, for 'Three Billboards,' I was just getting on trains around America. I wrote everywhere from New…

— Martin McDonagh

“I used to love you very much.”

— Martin McDonagh

I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.

— Martin McDonagh

It's the periods and the commas that you have to forget about. The words never change, but the intonations change.

— Martin McDonagh

When I started out, I was very vociferously against theatre or what I saw theatre as being, so I tried to make…

— Martin McDonagh

I think as a writer you never have to flee from fame because you're not that visible in the first place, but,…

— Martin McDonagh

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when…

— Martin McDonagh