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I'd love to do something like 'A Canterbury Tale,' because I love the English language.

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I never, ever drink while writing. Never have from the start, and I'm happy that I never have to. A lot of my stuff is plot-driven and mathematical, and I think you need a clean and sober mind to pin down the logistics of that.

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I don't write all the time. But if I'm writing something, I'll just bang into it every day until it's finished. I write pretty quickly.

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I never really tell anyone what I'm writing beforehand because I usually don't know what it will be.

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

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

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I loved 'The Master' a lot. I'm not going to get to work with Daniel Day-Lewis, but Joaquin Phoenix is one of the best around, I think.

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I've learned not to be such a show-off and to have a bit more empathy with humanity. Or at least to fake that.

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When I heard the Pogues, I connected with the songs immediately, but it was also the first time I didn't reject out of hand the kind of music that my parents had always tried to push on to us when we were growing up.

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Plays were really my last option. The reason I didn't write plays initially was because I thought theatre was the worst of all the art forms.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Playwright

Born: March 26th, 1970

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