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Patrick Marber
English
Writer
About the author
I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things.
Patrick Marber,
English
Writer
#Years
#Awards
It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way.
Patrick Marber,
English
Writer
#Drugs
Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.
Patrick Marber,
English
Writer
#Character
#People
#Play
#Trying
#Soul
But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.
Patrick Marber,
English
Writer
#Wrong
I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that.
Patrick Marber,
English
Writer
#Film
#Hollywood
#Pain
I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.
Patrick Marber,
English
Writer
#Heart
#Mistakes
I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.
Patrick Marber,
English
Writer
#Film
#Play
I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.
Patrick Marber,
English
Writer
#Reading
#School
#Parents
#Theatre
A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
Patrick Marber,
English
Writer
#Death
#Family
It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
Patrick Marber,
English
Writer
#Film
#Press
But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make.
Patrick Marber,
English
Writer
#Film
#Hollywood
The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play.
Patrick Marber,
English
Writer
#Life
#Play
#Emotions
#Events
Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
Patrick Marber,
English
Writer
#Art
#First
#Theatre
Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated.
Patrick Marber,
English
Writer
#Writer
When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice.
Patrick Marber,
English
Writer
#Choice
When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.
Patrick Marber,
English
Writer
#Time
#Life
#Love
#Years
I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.
Patrick Marber,
English
Writer
I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.
Patrick Marber,
English
Writer
#Man
I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion.
Patrick Marber,
English
Writer
#Play
#First
#Power
#Rest
#Meeting
#Emotion
#Tension