Captured Quote by 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 going to…

— 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 sleep twice…

— 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 people I…

— 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 music, for…

— 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 have a…

— 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