Jez Butterworth Quotes

Jez Butterworth — English Dramatist born on December 29, 1969,

Jeremy "Jez" Butterworth is an English playwright, screenwriter, and film director. He has written screenplays in collaboration with his brothers, John-Henry and Tom... (wikipedia)

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.

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.

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

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

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