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

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I fell into the theatre because I felt I was doing it well, and I stuck to it for the same reason.

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With a stage play, they can't cut a word; you can be in rehearsals every day, you cast it, you cast the director, too; the amount of control for a playwright is almost infinite, so you have that control over the finished product.

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I think if you're writing a play, it should be its own end game; you'll never get to do a good one unless you know it's not a blueprint for a film; you're not going to get the action right and the story right.

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I think as a writer you never have to flee from fame because you're not that visible in the first place, but, after the Broadway success of 'Beauty Queen,' people were coming up to me all the time, and I wasn't really prepared for that level of attention.

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I don't feel I have to defend myself for being English or for being Irish, because, in a way, I don't feel either. And, in another way, of course, I'm both.

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I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.

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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 about any offers or options.

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I seldom feel comfortable in a theatre. I always feel like I own a cinema. I feel equally happy in an empty one as a full one. Probably happier in an empty one!

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My plays are always pushing towards cinema anyway. They're down and dirty, real and more fun.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Playwright

Born: March 26th, 1970

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