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Martin McDonagh

Martin Faranan McDonagh (/məkˈdɒnə/; born 26 March 1970) is a British-Irish playwright, screenwriter, and director. Born and brought up in London, the son of Irish parents, he holds dual British and Irish citizenship. He is among the most acclaimed living Irish playwrights. A winner of the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film, McDonagh has been nominated for three other Academy Awards, and in 2018 won three BAFTA Awards from four nominations and two Golden Globe Awards from three nominations for his film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

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It's the periods and the commas that you have to forget about. The words never change, but the intonations change.

Forget, Never Change, Periods, Intonations, Words

It's the way that I think about the world, and the way that I like to tell stories - I don't think you should get too heavy. There's enough out there, in the world, with violence. I think that comedy lightens the heaviness [of the world].

Stories, Think, Thinking, World

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

Beforehand, Know, Tell, Usually, Writing

It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind

Behinds, Dead, Leave

When you've got good actors, they're going to come up with good stuff, but you're never quite sure how the dynamics are going to work between them.

Actors, Come, Dynamics, Quite, Stuff

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.

Agents, Want, Given, Pick, Hear

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.

Queens, Thinking, People, Prepared, Broadway, Visible

I like traveling and I like not being part of the film world. Especially when you're in the middle of a junket, you're thinking, "I'm not doing this again for four years!"That's about taking time and finding the right story and being in a happy place in life where you can joyfully tell a story. I'm not really into the fame side of things, so I'm very happy with making a film every four years or so.

Film, Making, Part, Tell, Thinking, World

When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there.

Bring, Character, Characters, Knowing, Let, Writing

It's like two years straight out of your life doing a film. It's very enjoyable, especially working with the guys, but I kind of like the idea of traveling and growing, and developing as a writer and as a filmmaker.

Guys, Ideas, Kind, Like, Two, Years

Dublin people think they are the center of the world and the center of Ireland. And they don't realize that people have to leave Ireland to get work, and they look down on people who do.

Looks, People, Think, Thinking, World

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!

Cinema, Comfortable, Empty, Equally, Theatre

If you've got time to waste, you might as well waste it listening to people.

Crafts, Listening, People, Waste

'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good.

Fiction, Film, Made, Nearly

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.

Way, Feels, Being Irish, English, Course

I realize that I am never going to grow up.

Grow, Growing Up, Grows, Realize, Realizing

I don't even subscribe to writer's block being a truthful thing. I've had writer's laziness quite often. But I think it's all about sitting down and facing down the blank page and doing it, and I've always been ok at that.

Blank, Block, Down, Quite, Sitting Down, Thinking

All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.

Black, Balance, Comedy, Despairing, Melancholy

There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies.

Art, Real, Lying, Character, Lies

Theatre was an art form that I didn't really respect, and because I wanted to shake it up and do different things on stage, I was able to combine all the things I'd learnt through writing on my own.

Art, Combine, Theatre, Writing

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