"I hoped the dramatic power of the play……" — Patrick Marber
"I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion."
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32 Quotes by Patrick Marber
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I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays…
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I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these…
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Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
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I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.
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I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of…
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I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.
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Thank God life ends—we'd never survive it. From Big Bang to weary shag, the history of the world. Our flesh…
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
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Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters,…
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I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and…
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When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice.
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The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events,…
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