I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.Patrick Marber
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The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play.Patrick Marber
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Oh, I would love to be in Don Juan's shoes for a weekend. Not that I was ever handsome enough to be a Don Juan.Patrick Marber
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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.Patrick Marber
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Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated.Patrick Marber
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I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that.Patrick Marber
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A part of me would like to see the money go to hospitals or housing, but I have benefited so greatly from funding for the National Theatre, which has been incredible.Patrick Marber
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I come back to the theatre happily knowing that while it won't make me rich, it will provide me with fun.Patrick Marber
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I have the comedian's fear of bottles flying. I've never been bottled off, but I have had things thrown at me. Bag of crisps. And there's still a part of me, when I sit in an audience, that thinks people are going to start heckling the play.Patrick Marber
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I think I write serious comedies. I would love to be able to write for pure pleasure, but the undertow is always loneliness.Patrick Marber
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But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.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 before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.Patrick Marber
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Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.Patrick Marber
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My dialogue probably reveals the paranoia of the stand-up: if you're not quick and interesting, they will be gone.Patrick Marber
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I have made a decision that in future, I will only take on movies that have a better than 75 per cent chance of being made, and that's not easy.Patrick Marber
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When I'm on a train and see an empty pitch, it gives me a certain pleasure that I can't quite describe. It's to do with potential.Patrick Marber
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When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.Patrick Marber
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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 all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things.Patrick Marber
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I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.Patrick Marber
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I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.Patrick Marber
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It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.Patrick Marber
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But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make.Patrick Marber
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I consider myself a Jewish writer, like all my heroes: Tom Stoppard, David Mamet, Philip Roth, Arthur Miller, Woody Allen.Patrick Marber
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If I get anything out, producing anything, no matter whether it's good or not, I allow myself a little pat on the back.Patrick Marber
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