Any Quote by Jez Butterworth Download Open image “I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience.” — Jez Butterworth ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Any Audience Good Good Neighbors Neighbors Responsibility Think Writers Writing
The really important people in TV are not the directors; they're the writers. — Mary Harron Copy Share Image
Audiences are just like us as writers - we grow attached to characters. In certain ways you don't want them to change. — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
If you create a good story that has a lot of story value I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the… — Robert Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I think audiences are really savvy and know when we're doing stuff to just shock them versus do stuff that really drives the story. — Lauren Schmidt Hissrich Copy Share Image
You have to keep your audience in your mind; if you're writing stuff that you know nobody's going to care about then you should… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
There are tons of really good writers out there, but for one reason or another, they just have not had the support that allowed… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Safety, reputation, their lives, their friends, and their world. Writers typically try to avoid that because it's not expedient. — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
In truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write. — J. K. Rowling 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
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
I actually have blissfully romantic views of marriage, because that has been my experience of it. — Jez Butterworth Copy Share Image
Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I… — Ben Schwartz Copy Share Image
If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A lot of people have been saying 'The 100' reminds them of 'Lord Of The Flies,' 'Lost' and 'Battlestar Galactica,' and all of those… — Marie Avgeropoulos Copy Share Image
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that.… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program. — Aaron Schock Copy Share Image
Anyone who's read my 'Terror in the Skies' series knows that I have not been writing with an eye toward approval from any government… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
The system in Germany is different, as you sign up with a company for two or three years, and you work exclusively with them;… — Tom Wlaschiha Copy Share Image
I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image