Always Quote by Martin McDonagh

I pick and choose what I want to do at any given time, and what not to do, importantly. My agents, I won't hear…

— Martin McDonagh

Theatre was an art form that I didn't really respect, and because I wanted to shake it up and do different things on stage,…

— Martin McDonagh

I realize that I am never going to grow up.

— Martin McDonagh

I try to naturally keep things to a manageable storytelling length, which is about two hours, so you try to cut out anything extraneous.

— Martin McDonagh

All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.

— Martin McDonagh

I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we? We are…

— Martin McDonagh

As a kid, as a poor-ish, working-class kid, even visiting America seemed like an impossible dream. Every time I ever went anywhere in America,…

— Martin McDonagh

I like traveling and I like not being part of the film world. Especially when you're in the middle of a junket, you're thinking,…

— Martin McDonagh

I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around.

— Martin McDonagh

When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there.

— Martin McDonagh

I'm not really into the fame side of things, so I'm very happy with making a film every four years or so.

— Martin McDonagh

When you've got good actors, they're going to come up with good stuff, but you're never quite sure how the dynamics are going to…

— Martin McDonagh