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Dramatist
Born: 1969
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
Change
Learning
You
Choose
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.
Jez Butterworth
Music
Time
Experience
I Can
I grew up in a household that was very left wing.
Jez Butterworth
Left
Up
Very
Grew
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
Attitude
Politics
Me
Father
Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.
Jez Butterworth
Time
Looking Back
Looking
Sitting
I actually have blissfully romantic views of marriage, because that has been my experience of it.
Jez Butterworth
Marriage
Romantic
Experience
Because
I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience.
Jez Butterworth
Good
Responsibility
Think
Audience
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
Funny
Experience
You
Words
I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.
Jez Butterworth
Love
Past
Feeling
Always
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.
Jez Butterworth
Your
Run
Going
Show
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
Character
You
People
Feel
I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius.
Jez Butterworth
Love
Comedy
Genius
Guy
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