Quotes by Jez Butterworth

About Jez Butterworth:

Jeremy "Jez" Butterworth is an English playwright, screenwriter, and film director. He has written screenplays in collaboration with his brothers, John-Henry and Tom.
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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 five-year-old child's attitude towards the news. Mainly, that it absolutely turns me off.

Jez Butterworth

Yesterday is gone and you can't change it. There are no guarantees for tomorrow, so save it. The best stuff is now, so live today and don't dare waste it.

Jez Butterworth

I may bring other women here, to this place, and I may tell them I love them, and make love to them. But they will be impostors. And I will be a ghost. Because it means I will have lost you. My body, my brain, my lungs, my stomach, my guts, legs, arm...

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I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk music, for example, not really studying it necessarily, but just trying to experience it so I can recall it later.

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I actually have blissfully romantic views of marriage, because that has been my experience of it.

Jez Butterworth

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 hit a spirit or captured something.

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 change every six days or six minutes, you can decide to be as awake and alive and learning as they are.

Jez Butterworth

I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience.

Jez Butterworth

I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.

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I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius.

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I grew up in a household that was very left wing.

Jez Butterworth

I understood very little about the significance of the Tony before, but I've learned that it makes a huge significance to whether or not your show is going to run.

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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 know and it doesn't just become a bag of tricks.

Jez Butterworth

Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.

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Author Bio

  • NameJez Butterworth
  • DescriptionEnglish dramatist and film director
  • BornMarch, 1969
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionActor; Film Director; Screenwriter; Author
  • WorksBirthday Girl; Jerusalem